Endnote 7 – Did Jesus Oppose the Purity Laws?

See the Table of Biblical Impurities, presented with a list of the means of purification and the zone of activity affected, in E.P. Sanders, Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah (Philadelphia: Trinity Press, 1990), p. 151. Sanders notes that the only two specifically prohibited impurities are contact with the carcass of an impure creature and eating what dies of itself.