RELIGION DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS WILLIAM G JOHNSSON Dissertation under the direction of Professor L E Keck The dissertation purposes to illumine the anthropology implied by the cultic argumentation of the book of Hebrews Accordingly the study concentrates upon the ninth and tenth chapters of Hebrews and finds its focus in the motifs of quot defilement quot and quot purgation quot It is argued that the anthropology expressed in the cul