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Title: In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 158) by Mary Douglas ISBN: 0-19-924541-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning Insight and Smooth, Lucid Prose
Comment: Mary Douglas is very simply brilliant. That she's chosen to shine her unique light on the Book of Numbers is great good fortune for anyone who dives into this book. I wish I'd discovered her earlier on in my biblical research, but no matter. Perhaps I had to be ready for the insights she reveals into the reasoning that might lie beyond the rules pertaining to corpse impurity and the associations that might connect the ashes of the red heifer (used in ritual cleansing) to another obscure rite involving a woman accused of adultery. She mines the Bible for incalculable riches where others might shake their heads in confusion. Metaphor is alive to her. She feels the heartbeat behind the words. Her conclusions are undeniably brilliant, and she is compulsively readable and enjoyable at the same time. That this book is currently "not available" is dreadfully unfortunate. I was able to get a hardcover fairly easily however, and I urge others to track down the text even if it takes time. Meanwhile I'm on to more of Mary Douglas, of course.
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Title: Leviticus As Literature by Mary Douglas ISBN: 0199244197 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas ISBN: 0415289955 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas ISBN: 0415138264 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 04 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud by Christine Elizabeth Hayes ISBN: 0195151208 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament As Sacred Scripture by Sandra Marie Schneiders ISBN: 0814659438 Publisher: Michael Glazier Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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