PURITY BEYOND THE TEMPLE IN THE SECOND TEMPLE ERA From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Poirier, John C | Copyright Society of Biblical Literature Summer 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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In the first line of the article on ritual purity in Encyclopedia Judaica, we read that purity is "a concept that a person or object can be in a state which, by religious law, prevents the person or object from having any contact with the temple or its cult."1 A number of more recent studies have adopted a similar view, claiming that the purity laws of Second Temple Judaism derive their essential warrant from th...

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