Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman World

In this in-depth exploration of holiness in the context of rabbinic Judaism, Hannah K.

Harrington places the rabbinic concept of holiness alongside other notions of the sacred in the Graeco-Roman world.

Holistic and yet detailed, this volume provides a much-needed comparative view of this subject during a key period in the development of the Jewish religion.