Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender

This book offers a new perspective on the extensive rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology, and anatomy, and on the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered. It analyzes the functions of these discussions within the larger textual world of rabbinic literature and in the context of Jewish and Christian culture in late antiquity.

Author: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 01/02/2002
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780804745536

About the Author
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.