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Purity Culture- A Primer on Ritual Impurity and why it Matters
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"Purity culture" means something very different once you go back to the source. In this primer episode of A Strange and Beautiful Kingdom, David Parcher unpacks what ritual impurity actually meant in ancient Israel — and clears out three myths that have shaped centuries of bad preaching: that impurity is sin, that it was a medical quarantine system, and that "lepra" in Leviticus and Numbers means leprosy (it doesn't — Hansen's disease didn't exist yet in that part of the world).
Along the way: why everyone became ritually impure just by being alive, how Passover…
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