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Purity, body, and self in early rabbinic literature / Mira Balberg.
LIBRA BM702 .B277 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balberg, Mira, 1978- author.
- Series:
- S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
- The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
- Purity, Ritual.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- From sources of impurity to circles of impurity
- Subjecting the body
- Objects that matter
- On corpses and persons
- The duality of gentile bodies
- The pure self
- Epilogue: Recomposing purity and meaning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520280632
- 0520280636
- OCLC:
- 855209550
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