Purity and Danger

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In dietary law: Interpretation of Jewish laws
…these laws in her book Purity and Danger (1966). She suggested that these notions of defilement are rules of separation that symbolize and help maintain the biblical notion of the distinctness of the Hebrews from other societies. A central element in her interpretation is that each of the injunctions is…
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