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Fear of contagious impurity (1)

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 		Keywords
purity
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts
Old Testament

Text
Šurpu 2.100-103:
He slept in a cursed person’s bed, he sat in a cursed person’s chair, he ate at a cursed person’s table, he drank from a cursed person’s cup.

Leviticus 15:4, 9, 12:
Any bed which the impurity (zāb) will lie upon is unclean, any chair which he sits upon is unclean, … anything which he rides upon is unclean, … any pottery which he touches shall be broken, and any wooden vessel immersed.

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Leviticus 15:4-12
Šurpu 2.100-103

Bibliography

Geller 1980, 187-188Geller, Mark J. “The Šurpu Incantations and Lev. V. 1-5.” Journal of Semitic Studies 25 (1980) 181-192. [Oxford Journals (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus


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