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Document Details : Title: L’impureté selon P Subtitle: Une lecture théologique Author(s): MARX, Alfred Journal: Biblica Volume: 82 Issue: 3 Date: 2001 Pages: 363-384 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.82.3.3200394 Abstract : This study sets out to review the different factors of impurity recognized as such by P. In the final analysis, these come down to two: death (with which ‘leprosy’ is connected) and sexuality. Whatever the original reason for considering these two factors as a source of impurity, P. has given them a theological reinterpretation by which he relates them to the story of the Fall; death and sexuality are characteristics of the human condition that are a result of the Fall, whereas the impurity which they bring about calls to mind the dissolution of the original connection between man and God. |
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