Academic Journal
Invention of a Bathing Tradition in Hasmonean Palestine.
| Τίτλος: | Invention of a Bathing Tradition in Hasmonean Palestine. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Fatkin, Danielle Steen1 dfatkin@knox.edu |
| Πηγή: | Journal for the Study of Judaism: In the Persian Hellenistic & Roman Period. 2018, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p155-177. 23p. |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | *Maccabees, *Bathing customs, *Rabbinical literature, *Ablution, *Water immersion |
| Περίληψη: | While scholars have known about the earliest ritual immersion pool in the Buried Palace at Jericho for more than thirty years, they have yet to produce a clear understanding of why the Hasmoneans began building ritual immersion pools when they did. Further, scholars have also failed to acknowledge the innovative nature of these spaces. I argue that we can best resolve these shortcomings by understanding the construction of the earliest known purpose-built ritual immersion pool (PBRIP) by John Hyrcanus I as an innovation driven by the political and social disruptions of the late second century BCE, and that once he had pioneered the idea of a PBRIP that it rapidly gained popularity. This article contextualizes the PRBIPs within the framework of Hellenistic palatial architecture and Second Temple literature rather than rabbinic literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | Academic Search Index |
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