It would be nice to have Mary Douglas' book "Purity and Danger", along with her other works - "Leviticus as Literature" and "In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers".
Links above take you to their Amazon page. I just got done reading an article in Semeia 35 on purity - "The Idea of Purity in Mark's Gospel" by Jerome Neyrey. He cites Mary's work and it looks very interesting.
Apparently, this book has it's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_and_Danger
"In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945."
I would love to have this book in Logos. I have read it a couple of times and refer to it when teaching bible background.
My Library shows 681 references to this work
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I would love to have this book in Logos. I have read it a couple of times and refer to it when teaching bible background. My Library shows 681 references to this work
Wow, I need a quick search myself and found more references than expected. This just shows how important this work is.
