Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature.

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This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third centur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Balberg, Mira, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
©2014
Colección:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Temas:
Purity, Ritual > Judaism.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Pureté rituelle > Judaïsme.
Littérature rabbinique > Histoire et critique.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Purity, Ritual > Judaism
Rabbinical literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Sources of Impurity to Circles of Impurity; 2. Subjecting the Body; 3. Objects That Matter; 4. On Corpses and Persons; 5. The Duality of Gentile Bodies; 6. The Pure Self; Epilogue: Recomposing Purity and Meaning; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; Source Index.

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