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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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Balberg, Mira, 1978- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014. ©2014.
Series:	S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Subjects:	Purity, Ritual > Judaism. Rabbinical literature > History and criticism. Rabbinical literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.