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Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature
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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one's self and one's body and, more broadly, the relations between one's self and one's human and nonhuman environments. With their. | ||
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