medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Check on the rules for Baptism with "living water" in
paleo-Christianity. This may possibly have something
to do with wells in churches, although the baptistery
would have been the logical place.
MG
--- Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I didn't mean to set off this sort of discussion!
> The evidence I had in
> mind is pre-Rabbinic, and has no obvious association
> with any mikva-type
> structures. These are simply wells, in conjunction
> with "worship"
> (and/or burial) locations. I don't know how
> "typical" this is for the
> early (Greco-Roman) period, for which evidence is
> relatively scarce in any
> event.
>
> Bob
>
> > Sharon, indeed men do use a mikva. Even today
> there are men who immerse
> every > day before prayers (some only on the Sabbath
> and holidays). And
> many immerse > before Yom Kippur. At the same time,
> I think Mikvas found
> adjacent to > synagogues may have been used by
> women. And I am not sure
> that women were not > permitted to enter the
> synagogue before immersion. I
> do know that immersion in > the mikva following
> menstruation is considered
> so important in Jewish tradition > that in a town
> where there are
> insufficient resources, one is required to build > a
> mikva before a
> synagogue. > Feige
>
> > > Sharon Dale wrote: > > > medieval-religion:
> Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture > > > > Tom, I am
> not sure that it would have been a mikva since
> Jewish women who go > > to
> the ritual baths after menstruation are not
> permitted in the synagogue > >
> until after visiting the bath. At least I THINK that
> this is the sequence.
> > > So, it seems unlikely that a mikva would be
> located IN a synagogue.
> But, I > > do think there is some tradition (and I
> confess I should know
> this) of men > > washing their hands before some
> prayers. all best, Sharon
> > > > > Sharon Dale Ph.D.
>
> > > > > > > I suspect it would be for a mikva
> (ritual bath). > > > Tom Izbicki
>
> > > > > > > > >It may be of interest, for this
> thread, that wells have also been found > > in > > >
> >some early Jewish
> synagogues and/or meeting places (e.g. Ostia near
> Rome, > > > >and at
> least one of the Jewish catacombs in Rome). All this
> may, of > > >
> >course, be quite coincidental. > > > > > > > >Bob
> > > > > > > > >-- > >
> > >Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of
> Pennsylvania > > >
>
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