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Purity, body, and self in early rabbinic literature

Balberg, Mira, 1978-

Purity, body, and self in early rabbinic literature [electronic resource] / Mira Balberg. - Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780520958210


Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism.


Electronic books.

BM702 / .B277 2014

296.7