Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences)

by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $31.67

  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.