Shai Secunda

The Talmud's Red Fence

Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and Its Sasanian Context

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighbouring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198856825
• ISBN-10: 0198856822
• Artikelnr.: 58702448

Autorenporträt

Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Chair in Jewish Studies at Bard College, USA, where he directs the Religious Studies program.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface: Reading Nidah in its Sasanian Context
* 1. Like a Hedge of Lilies: Menstruation and Difference in the
"Iranian" Talmud
* 2. Lifeblood and Deathblood: The Physiology, Etiology, and Demonology
of Menstruation in Sasanian Judaism and Zoroastrianism
* 3. Impure Gates: Menstruation and Identity in Sasanian Religious Life
* 4. The Sasanian Queen-mother and Her Bloodstains: Talmudic Menstrual
Purity and Competing Ritual Systems
* 5. Inside-out and Outside-in: The Segregation of Menstruants in the
Talmud and its Sasanian Context
* 6. She Counts for Herself: Peering Beyond the Talmudic Discourse of
Menstrual Impurity
* Conclusion: Nidah: An Enduring Difference