Menstrual Purity - Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender

This book offers a new perspective on the extensive rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology, and anatomy, and on the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered. It analyzes the functions of these discussions within the larger textual world of rabbinic literature and in the context of Jewish and Christian culture in late antiquity.

About the author

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

Summary

This text offers a new perspective on rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology, and anatomy, and on the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered.

Additional text

"...Fonrobert's book is a ground-breaking study that channels the researchof talmudic literature into a new and promising scholarly direction."

Product details

• Authors: Fonrobert Charlotte, Charlotte Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2002
• EAN: 9780804745536
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4553-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Contraversions Jews and Other; Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences; Contraversions: Jews and Other; Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations