Endnote 1 – Getting Down and Dirty with Impurity

For further discussion, see Walther Farber, “How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic Ritual against the ‘Hand of a Ghost,’” in H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and M. Stol, eds., Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Medicine (Leiden: Brill, 2004), pp. 117–132, esp. 119–122; and Yitzhaq Feder, Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022), pp. ix, 67–68.