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The stranger in the Bible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Mary Douglas
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When the Lord told Moses that his people should love the stranger as themselves (Leviticus 19:34), who was the stranger?

Type
L'étranger et l'infidèle
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , November 1994 , pp. 283 - 298
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1994

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* Some parts of this paper were given in a lecture entitled “The Demonology of Robertson Smith' at the Robertson Smith Congress in Aberdeen in April 1994, for the invitation to which I thank Prof. William Johnstone. Its present form was prepared for a seminar at the Carlos Institute, Modena, in May 1994. I thank Dr. Andrea Borsari for the occasion, and for his valuable criticism and his work on preparing an Italian version.

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(2) Weber, Max, 1952, Ancien Judaism (Free Press), p. 336, 343.Google Scholar

(3) Douglas, Mary, 1993, In the Wilderness, the doctrine of defilement in the Book of Numbers (Sheffield Academic Press).Google Scholar

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(7) I have written on this in The Place of Balaam in the Book of Numbers, Man, 1993.

(8) This nomenclature is a complex issue, ably dealt with by Van Houten, Christiana, The Alien in Israelite Law (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991).Google Scholar

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