Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert. Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ix, 326 pp.
This book is presented as “first a study of the classic rabbinic discourse on menstruation and of the range of meanings that talmudic literature accords to women's bodies in its discourse on Niddah” (p. 1). As the presence of the word “Christian” in the subtitle would suggest, however, the actu...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2003
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AJS review
Year: 2003, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 322-325 |
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