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Description:: This dissertation explores how Israelites regarded foreign lands, relates this to the debate about biblical categorizations of pollution and purification, and points to larger questions …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Allgood, Andrea Ellen (creator); Olyan, Saul (Director); Kraemer, Ross (Reader); Rutz, Matthew (Reader); Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: purity in the Hebrew Bible; ritual or moral defilement or impurity; land pollution or defilement; biblical land ideologies; foreign land impurity; land purity in ancient West Asia; postcolonial theory; foreign land rhetoric; purity constructions; concepts of land in the Hebrew Bible; comparative purity systems; Hebrew Bible; purity in the ancient Near East; biblical reflections on imperialism; homeland and exile in the Hebrew Bible; pollution and purification in the ancient Mediterranean; Postcolonialism; Assyriology
Language:: English
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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