42. Yitzhaq Feder: Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible - the concrete experience that grounds the abstract concepts of Leviticus

Yitzhaq Feder is a Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Haifa. He received his PhD from the University of Bar-Ilan University and has been teaching and researching since 2008. He won the 2012 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship.

Feder’s Book “Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor"

Link to his published academic works: https://haifa.academia.edu/YitzhaqFeder

We talk about a number of topics within his area of expertise related to his new book

• Feder sees cultural components of Leviticus that are evident all around the ancient world.
• How do we understand what ancient Israel means by “purity” and “impurity” without imposing our modern concepts of these ideas?
• The “separation of church and science”
• The overlap between infection and ritual impurity in the ancient world
• The abstract concepts of Israelite worldview are grounded in concrete experience, including purity and impurity.
• The relationship between sin and disease in Israel and the ancient Near East
• Why are there no healing rituals in Leviticus?
• Impurity that is viewed as dangerous to other people vs impurity that prevents people from approaching God in Leviticus
• Feder presents a common but controversial scholarly view on the composition history of Leviticus by discussing the “P” Priestly Source and the “H” Holiness Code
• The different elements of holiness in Leviticus
• The difference between sin offerings and purification offerings
• Feder utilizes a methodology that pulls from many disciplines to contribute to our understanding of the biblical worldview, with an emphasis on the book of Leviticus

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