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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Balberg, Mira, 1978- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Rabbinical literature.
Purity, Ritual > Judaism.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Litterature rabbinique > Histoire et critique.
Purete rituelle > Judaïsme.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780520958210

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