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13 - Conclusion: Naturalizing a Religious Concept

from Part III - Images, Codes and Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2021

Yitzhaq Feder
Yitzhaq Feder
Affiliation:
University of Haifa, Israel
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The central claim of this book has been that the biblical notion of ṭum’ah is rooted in embodied experience. Closely related to disgust, it is more specifically to be identified with the experience of contagion as manifested in multiple domains of life, each type according to its own rules and ramifications. Even extensions of defilement discourse which emerge in biblical and Second Temple Period Jewish sources, including those more remote from the physiological causes of impurity, can be traced back to the various schemas of embodied existence.

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Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible
From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor
 , pp. 261 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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