The Talmud's red fence : menstrual impurity and difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian context / Samuel Secunda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Secunda, Samuel, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talmud. Niddah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Talmud.

Talmud. Niddah.

Talmud Bavli--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2020

Summary:

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

Contents:

Preface

Reading Nidah in its Sasanian Context

Acknowledgements

Like a hedge of lilies: menstruation and difference in the "Iranian" Talmud

Lifeblood and deathblood: the physiology, etiology, and demonology of menstruation in Sasanian Judaism and Zoroastrianism

Impure gates: menstruation and identity in Sasanian religious life

Sasanian queen-mother and Her bloodstains: Talmudic menstrual purity and competing ritual systems

Inside-out and outside-in: the segregation of menstruants in the Talmud and its Sasanian Context

She counts for herself: peering beyond the Talmudic discourse of menstrual impurity

Conclusion: Nidah: an enduring difference.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259889-9

0-19-188997-0

0-19-259888-0