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Witch-Hunts, Purity, and Social Boundaries

Witch-Hunts, Purity, and Social Boundaries

Janzen, David

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 350

Religion General Bible Studies

ISBN10: 1841272922
ISBN13: 9781841272924
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 18 2002
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

The anthropological approach to the expulsion of the foreign women from the post-exilic community argues that it was the result of a witch-hunt. Its comparative approach notes that the community responded to its weak social boundaries in the same fashion as societies with similar social weaknesses. This book argues that the post-exilic community's decision to expel the foreign women in its midst was the direct result of the community's inability to enforce a common morality among its members. This anthropological approach to the expulsion shows how other societies with weak social moralities tend to react with witch-hunts, and it suggests that the expulsion in Ezra 9-10 was precisely such an activity. It concludes with an examination of the political and economic forces that could have eroded the social morality of the community.

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