Review
"Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions is must reading for anyone who works on ritual purity and the tabernacle/temple apparatus in ancient Judaism."
Matthew Thiessen Saint Louis University, The Enoch Seminar Online (2014)
"The volume remains an excellent synthesis of the evidence for purity's formation, development, and exchange in the ancient Mediterranean and any scholar considering the study of purity in ancient religions would be wise to consult it."
Jason R. Price, University of California, Religion 44:1
About the Author
Christian Frevel, Dr. theol. (1994, Universität Bonn), is Professor for Old Testament Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since 2007, his research has focused on the formation Early Judaism(s), Biblical Anthropology and Pentateuchal Studies. Christophe Nihan, Dr. (2005, University of Lausanne), is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and History of Ancient Israel at the University of Lausanne. His research focuses on the ritual laws of the Pentateuch, as well as on processes of textualization in Persian period Israel. Contributors include: Philippe Borgeaud, Beate Ego, Christian Frevel, Linda-Marie Günther, Michaël Guichard, Gudrun Holtz, Manfred Hutter, Albert de Jong, Michael Konkel, Bernhard Linke, Lionel Marti, Hans-Peter Mathys, Christophe Nihan, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Benedikt Rausche, Noel Robertson, Udo Rüterswörden, Ian Werrett, Jürgen K. Zangenberg
