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In this volume, leading scholars explore the contours of the Watchers traditions throughout history, tracing their development through the Enoch literature, Jubilees, and other early Jewish and Christian writings. At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the “sons of God” who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the...

The purity system of ancient Israel is acquainted not only with physical impurities, but also ethical ones.15 Ethical impurity grows out of situations that are controllable and are not natural or necessary, such as delaying purification from physical impurity, polluting specific sancta, sexual transgressions, idolatry, and murder. The locus of uncleanness may be the person, but proscriptions refer more to the pollution of the sanctuary or land.16 Punishments
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