The impact of Yom Kippur on early Christianity : the Day of Atonement from Second Temple Judaism to the fifth century
History
xx, 445 pages ; 24 cm.
9783161480928, 3161480929
53848188
Part One : Yom Kippur in early Jewish thought and ritual
Introduction
The names of Yom Kippur
The rituals of Yom Kippur
Imaginaries of Yom Kippur
Part Two : The impact of Yom Kippur on early Christianity in the first and second centuries
Yom Kippur in the early Christian Imaginaries
Yom Kippur imagery in Gnosticism and in early Christian mysticism
Yom Kippur in Jewish Christian legends
Part Three : The impact of Yom Kippur on early Christianity from the third to the fifth centuries
Christian exegesis of Leviticus and the Polemics against the contemporary Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur and the Christian autumn festivals
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2002