| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface -- Reading Nidah in its Sasanian Context -- Acknowledgements -- Like a hedge of lilies: menstruation and difference in the Iranian Talmud -- Lifeblood and deathblood: the physiology, etiology, and demonology of menstruation in Sasanian Judaism and Zoroastrianism -- Impure gates: menstruation and identity in Sasanian religious life -- Sasanian queen-mother and Her bloodstains: Talmudic menstrual purity and competing ritual systems -- Inside-out and outside-in: the segregation of menstruants in the Talmud and its Sasanian Context -- She counts for herself: peering beyond the Talmudic discourse of menstrual impurity -- Conclusion: Nidah: an enduring difference |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2020) |
| SUBJECT |
Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005541
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Talmud. fast (OCoLC)fst01356431 |
| Subject |
Menstruation -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Women in Zoroastrianism.
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Menstruation in rabbinical literature
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Menstruation -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Women in Zoroastrianism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192598899 |
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0192598899 |
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9780191889974 |
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0191889970 |
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9780192598882 |
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0192598880 |
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