ANTB64H3 Chapter Notes -Donots, Cleanness, Mary Douglas
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Reasoning behind food rules not to distinguish judaism from other religions. But in general the underlying principle of cleanness in animals is that they shall conform. *any interpretat"s will fail which take the do-nots of the old testament in piece-meal fashion. God"s work through blessing is to create order through which men"s affairs prosper; when blessing is w/d there are curses, barrenness, pestilence, confusion. Separate/whole: animals w/o blemish only f/ sacrifice, w. purified a/f childbirth, bodily discharges are defiling and disqualify approach to temple. Priests can only come into contact w/ dead of close kin, high priest cannot at all come in contact w/ dead. Military camp: treated like a temple, bodily defilements kept outside, must be pure to enter tent. Other precepts extend holiness to species and categories. Hybrids and other confusions are abominatedto be holy is to be whole, to be one; holiness is unity, integrity, perfection of the individ. and of the kind.
