Regardless of religious party, however, a vision of a people set apart by God and fit to dwell in the midst of his holiness was central to the piety of Second Temple Judaism.The latter article is behind the subscription wall.To learn more about ritual purity and its role in Jesus’ ministry, read “Jesus and Ritual Impurity” by Matthew Thiessen, published in the Fall 2021 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.
Some PaleoJudaica posts on ritual purity in ancient Judaism are collected here (cf. here) and here (cf. here).
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