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Forsaken : the menstruant in medieval Jewish mysticism / Sharon Faye Koren.
LIBRA BM702 .K663 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koren, Sharon Faye.
- Series:
- HBI series on Jewish women
- Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
- The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
- Purity, Ritual.
- Menstruation--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Menstruation.
- Mysticism--Judaism--History.
- Mysticism.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- History.
- Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
- Judaism.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, [2011]
- Contents:
- Early Jewish Mysticism
- From Earthly Temple to Heavenly Temple: Impurity in Early Jewish Mysticism
- The Mysticism of the Beraita d'Niddah
- Menstruation and the Mystics of Ashkenaz
- Medieval Kabbalah
- Menstrual Impurity and Mystical Praxis in Theosophical Kabbalah
- The Myth of the Menstruating Shekhinah
- The Ontic Metamorphosis of the Menstruating Shekhinah
- The Interplay between Myth, Science, and Law
- Mysticism & Menstruation in Islam & Christianity
- Menstrual Impurity and Sufism
- Menstrual Impurity in Medieval Christianity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781584659815
- 1584659815
- 9781584659822
- 1584659823
- 9781611680225
- 1611680220
- OCLC:
- 690090339
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