{"product_id":"witch-hunts-purity-and-social-boundaries-9781841272924","title":"Witch-Hunts, Purity, and Social Boundaries","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Janzen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anthropological approach to the expulsion of the foreign women from the post-exilic community argues that it was the result of a witch-hunt. Its comparative approach notes that the community responded to its weak social boundaries in the same fashion as societies with similar social weaknesses. This book argues that the post-exilic community's decision to expel the foreign women in its midst was the direct result of the community's inability to enforce a common morality among its members. This anthropological approach to the expulsion shows how other societies with weak social moralities tend to react with witch-hunts, and it suggests that the expulsion in Ezra 9-10 was precisely such an activity. It concludes with an examination of the political and economic forces that could have eroded the social morality of the community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45088450838679,"sku":"9781841272924","price":24668.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781841272924.webp?v=1767267374","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/witch-hunts-purity-and-social-boundaries-9781841272924","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}