Impurity and caste

Impurity and caste May 1, 2006

Mary Douglas has observed that “Levitical impurity is a fact of biology, common to all persons, and also a result of specific moral offences that anyone is liable to commit such as lying or stealing . . . Biblical impurity is of no use in demarcating advantaged social classes or ranks.”

But this is precisely what the Jews of Jesus’ time had made it!


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