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Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the Gospels often present him as opposed to the Jewish law and customs—especially when considering his numerous encounters with the ritually impure. Matthew Thiessen corrects this popular misconception by placing Jesus within the Judaism of his day. Thiessen demonstrates that the Gospel writers depict Jesus...

Chapters 3, 4, and 5 examine stories of Jesus’s interactions with those suffering from the three general sources of impurity: lepra, genital discharges, and corpses. Each chapter will demonstrate Jesus’s efforts to destroy the source of these ritual impurities. Together these chapters show that, according to the Gospel writers, when Jesus meets someone having a ritual impurity, he removes the source of that impurity from that person’s body. In other words, Jesus does not abolish the ritual purity
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