Purity Conceptions in Deuteronomy

Abstract

This paper consists of three parts. Part one works through the evidence for purity and impurity in Deuteronomy. Part two presents a thesis by M. Weinfeld; and, part three concerns the verification of this thesis along with a few conclusions. The treatment of the topic of purity in this chapter is based upon a very simple distinction: the observation of purity can either have its roots in a conventional type of behavior or it can constitute the conceptual pivot for the theology of an author or an editor. The chapter distinguishes between the concept of purity in Deuteronomy and that of another block of tradition, summarily designated the ‘Tetrateuch’, although it consists of the Priestly Document, Holiness Code, and secondary Priestly material, etc. These differences, in reference to their conceptions of purity and impurity, are summarized philosophically and theologically. Keywords:Deuteronomy; Holiness Code; Priestly Document; purity conceptions; Tetrateuch

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