Solving the gender problem in Leviticus 12: from Philo to feminism

The Levitical postpartum purity laws have had great religious significance in both Jewish and Christian tradition, up to the present day. For more than two thousand years, people have asked why, in Lev 12, a new mother’s postpartum impurity is twice as long if she has a female baby. No hypothesis ha...

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Subtitles:Early Christianity
Main Author: Whitear, Sarah (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Ed. Dehoniane 2020
In: Annali di storia dell'esegesi
Year: 2020, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 299-319
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Philo, Alexandrinus 25 BC-40 / Bible. Levitikus 12 / Bible. Levitikus 15 / Feminism / Tradition / Christianity / Judaism
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KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity

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