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Time and life cycle in Talmud and Midrash : socio-anthropological perspectives / Nissan Rubin.
Penn Museum Library BM700 .R83 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rubin, Nissan.
- Series:
- Judaism and Jewish life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Judaism.
- Life cycle, Human--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Life cycle, Human.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Talmud.
- Midrash.
- Sociology.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 225 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The sociology and anthropology of Talmudic texts
- The clothing of the primordial Adam as a symbol of apocalyptic time in the Midrashic sources
- Brit milah: a study of change in custom
- Coping with the value of the Pidyon haʼben payment in rabbinic literature: an example of a social change process
- Birth and marriage rituals: women's status in a critical reading of the texts
- The sages' conception of the body and soul
- From corpse to corpus: the body as a text in Talmudic literature
- Birkat avelim
- the blessing of mourners: ritual aspects of social change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-[209]) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781934843079
- 1934843075
- OCLC:
- 214285924
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