Purity studies in Judaism: an emerging subfield?

Studies of textual traditions about menstruation in Judaism are seldom without an agenda. Perhaps they cannot be. The polemical history of the literature is simply too entrenched by now. This is also the case with Evyatar Marienberg's series of studies, recently published in France, about the p...

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Subtitles:Review Article
Main Author: Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva 1965- (Author)
Contributors: Marienberg, Evyatar (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2007]
In: AJS review
Year: 2007, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 161-165
Review of:Niddah (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2003) (Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva)
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:Studies of textual traditions about menstruation in Judaism are seldom without an agenda. Perhaps they cannot be. The polemical history of the literature is simply too entrenched by now. This is also the case with Evyatar Marienberg's series of studies, recently published in France, about the place of menstruation in Jewish culture.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009407000268