Impure Mouths and Defiled Hearts: The Development of Deceit Impurity in Second Temple Judaism
Many early Christian and late Second Temple texts describe deceit as impurity. In this article, I delineate the development of this discourse and argue that it derived its power from several characteristics: mixing deceit impurity with other types of moral impurity; an implicit link between the stru...
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MDPI AG
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Religions |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/8/678 |