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Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit Jodi Magness unearths “footprints” buried in both archaeological and literary evidence to shed new light on Jewish daily life in Palestine from the mid-first century B.C.E. to 70 C.E.—the time and place of Jesus’ life and ministry. Magness analyzes recent archaeological discoveries from such sites as Qumran and Masada together with a host of period texts,...

the result of external processes but comes from within (because it is caused by immoral or unethical behavior),46 the rabbis ruled that impurity can affect the outside of a vessel without contaminating the inside:47 … a utensil whose outer parts are made unclean—its inner part is not made unclean. (m. Kelim 25:4). A utensil, the outer parts of which have been made unclean with liquids—the outer parts are unclean. Its inside, its rims, hangars, and handles are clean. [If] its inside is made unclean,
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