Priestly Law
November 24, 1:00-3:30 / Independence West - SH

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Presider: Baruch J. Schwartz, Hebrew University

T. M. Lemos, Miami University of Ohio
Where There Is Dirt, Is There System? Revisiting Biblical Purity Constructions

Eve Feinstein, Harvard University
Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: A New Perspective

Sarah Shectman, San Francisco, CA
Women in the Priestly Laws: A Reassessment

Yonder Gillihan, Boston College
Revisiting the "Monasticism" of the Community Rule: Sociological and Scriptural Models
for the Common Life of the Yahad