Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520958217
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0520280636
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1306402743
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1461957192
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9780520958210
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9780520280632
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9781306402743
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9781461957195
Serie:
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Inhalt:
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 century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one's self and one's body and, more broadly, the relations between one's self and one's human and nonhuman environments. With their
Inhalt:
Cover; Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Sources of Impurity to Circles of Impurity; 2. Subjecting the Body; 3. Objects That Matter; 4. On Corpses and Persons; 5. The Duality of Gentile Bodies; 6. The Pure Self; Epilogue: Recomposing Purity and Meaning; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; Source Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Balberg, Mira, DR. S Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2014 ISBN 9780520280632
Sprache:
Englisch
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