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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Balberg, Mira, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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