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A lot of the complications came later. The destruction of the Temple caused a huge mess with how the Law was handled.
by mbg721 3y ago
A lot of the complications came later. The destruction of the Temple caused a huge mess with how the Law was handled.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoThe expansion of ritual purity into everyday mundane life was an active area of dispute in the judaism of christ's time & place. He certainly would have been aware of the general concept and most likely had a take on it. In fact there's a historically grounded secular interpretation of the good samaritan parable indicating it's at least partially about exactly this. According to contemporaneous jewish moral norms, the priest in the parable has valid reason to avoid what he thinks is a dead body but only if he has a ritual duty to perform in temple in the near future. In the parable he is traveling "down from jersusalem" eg his duty is complete for now. Jesus is coming down against him maintaining ritual purity without a specific liturgical duty to.