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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Main Author: Balberg, Mira, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature.
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Published 2014
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Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature.
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