Book contents
- Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible
- Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transcriptions and Translations
- Abbreviations
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Embodying Pollution through the Life Cycle
- Disease
- 3 The “Touch” of Leprosy: Diagnosing Disease between Language and Experience
- 4 The Missing Ritual for Healing Skin Disease
- 5 Diagnosing Sin
- 6 Naturalizing Disease: Pollution as a Causal Theory
- The Soul: From the Table to the Grave
- Mating
- Part III Images, Codes and Discourse
- Works Cited
- Index of Biblical Sources
- Index of Selected Ancient Near Eastern Sources
- Index of Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature Sources
- Subject Index
5 - Diagnosing Sin
from Disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2021
Book contents
- Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible
- Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transcriptions and Translations
- Abbreviations
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Embodying Pollution through the Life Cycle
- Disease
- 3 The “Touch” of Leprosy: Diagnosing Disease between Language and Experience
- 4 The Missing Ritual for Healing Skin Disease
- 5 Diagnosing Sin
- 6 Naturalizing Disease: Pollution as a Causal Theory
- The Soul: From the Table to the Grave
- Mating
- Part III Images, Codes and Discourse
- Works Cited
- Index of Biblical Sources
- Index of Selected Ancient Near Eastern Sources
- Index of Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature Sources
- Subject Index
Summary
As seen in the previous chapter, there are numerous reasons to view the treatment of disease in P as reflecting an implicit polemic against accepted ritual practices. The present chapter will expand this argument to address the role of sin as a cause of disease. Though its point of departure is the rules of ṣara‘at in Leviticus 13–14, it will reveal a consistent tension that pervades P.
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- Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew BibleFrom Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor, pp. 91 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021