Talmud''s Red Fence - Menstrual Impurity Difference in Babylonian Judaism Its Sasanian

This book explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighbouring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation.

List of contents

• Preface: Reading Nidah in its Sasanian Context


• 1. Like a Hedge of Lilies: Menstruation and Difference in the "Iranian" Talmud


• 2. Lifeblood and Deathblood: The Physiology, Etiology, and Demonology of Menstruation in Sasanian Judaism and Zoroastrianism


• 3. Impure Gates: Menstruation and Identity in Sasanian Religious Life


• 4. The Sasanian Queen-mother and Her Bloodstains: Talmudic Menstrual Purity and Competing Ritual Systems


• 5. Inside-out and Outside-in: The Segregation of Menstruants in the Talmud and its Sasanian Context


• 6. She Counts for Herself: Peering Beyond the Talmudic Discourse of Menstrual Impurity


• Conclusion: Nidah: An Enduring Difference

About the author

Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Chair in Jewish Studies at Bard College, USA, where he directs the Religious Studies program.

Summary

This book explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighbouring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation.

Additional text

Secunda's Irano-talmudic research breathes new life into the way we study rabbinic literature, with potential for expanding our understanding of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) in comparison to corpora such as the Mishnah and the Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi) redacted by Jews in the Land of Israel in a Greco-Roman context.

Product details

• Authors: Shai Secunda, Shai (Jacob Neusner Professor of Jewish S Secunda, Secunda Shai
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198856825
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885682-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Theology, Judaism: life & practice, Judaism: life and practice, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Judaism: theology, Judaism: worship, rites & ceremonies