WINNERS BAS Publication Awards These prestigious awards have been made possible by a grant from: The Rohr Family in memory of Sami Rohr BEST BOOK ON THE HEBREW BIBLE Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor Yitzhaq Feder (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021) Where did the Hebrew Bible’s concepts of purity and pollution originate, and how did ancient Israel think about these ideas? In this insightful book, anthropologist and biblical scholar Yitzhaq Feder builds upon previous scholarship and offers a nuanced way forward by synthesizing what are typically opposing views on purity and […]