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Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) and Purity in Leviticus

24th May 2007

Upon hearing the sad news of the death of Dame Mary Douglas last week, I was thinking of writing up a short post on her significant contribution to the study of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible — in particular her ground breaking understanding of the purity laws in the book of Leviticus. As it turns out John Hobbins has beaten me to it over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry.

You may read his thoughtful post here.


This entry was posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 7:07 pm and is filed under Bible, Leviticus, Old Testament. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) and Purity in Leviticus”

  1. Matt Page Says:
    May 25th, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Hi Tyler,

    If you are going to write something about Douglas, it’d be great if you did it before Monday. I’m teaching on Leviticus at my Through the Bible in Five and a Half Years course, and would love to catch up on and include her insights which have so far escaped me. (Internet search resuming imminently).

    Matt

  2. Matt Page Says:
    May 25th, 2007 at 9:52 am

    oops – did the link wrong. Should be this

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