Biblical Purification: Was It Immersion?

The Archaeological and Textual Evidence 

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  1. See discussion in Ronny Reich, מקוואות טהרה בתקופת הבית השני ובתקופות המשנה ותלמוד [Jewish Ritual Baths in the Second Temple, Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods] (Jerusalem: Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi and Israel Exploration Society, 2013); Yonatan Adler, , הארכיאולוגיה של הטהרה: עדויות ארכיאולוגיות לשמירת הלכות טהרה בארץ-ישראל מהתקופה החשמונאית עד סוף תקופת התלמוד (164 לפנה"ס-400 לסה"נ) [The Archaeology of Purity: Archaeological Evidence for the Observance of Ritual Purity in Ereẓ-Israel from the Hasmonean Period until the End of the Talmudic Era (164 BCE–400 CE)], Ph.D. diss. (Bar-Ilan University, 2011), 321–343; idem, “On the Origins of Tevilah (Ritual Immersion),” TheTorah (2019).