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Gildas Hamel. Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries C.E. University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies 23. Berkeley: Unversity of California Press, 1990. xiii, 290 pp.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2009
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1. An exception is Hamel′s consistent and damaging misconception of the laws of ritual purity, especially important in the little semiotic and/or anthropological sections which punc tuate the good part of the book. Even apart from this consideration, these sections are often either hopelessly opaque (e.g., pp. 2529 on the meaning of meat) or obvious, if not simply mistaken (pp. 8192, on the colors of clothing).