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• Title: Corpse-Blood Impurity: A Lost Biblical Reading?
• Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 184 KB

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The sources of direct contamination caused by the dead, according to Numbers 19, are touching the corpse itself (vv. 11, 13), presence in the same tent with the dead (vv. 14, 18), and touching in the open [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] "a person who was killed or who died naturally, or human bone, or a grave" (v. 16; see also v. 18). (1) There is no mention of the blood of a corpse in the entire chapter. Yet tannaitic literature took it as given that corpse-blood conveys impurity, and disputes addressed only details of minimum quantities. Thus the Mishnah, listing what defiles in a tent, reports: The starting point of the Mishnah is the agreed assumption that corpse-blood defiles by a quarter-log minimum. (3) The dispute is limited to the questions of whether this minimum quantity of corpse-blood, less than which does not defile, must be from a single corpse, and whether even a smaller quantity defiles if it constitutes all the blood of a (minor) person. (4) Other sources reveal that this rule was considered an ancient one even by the Tannaim themselves.

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