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Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender.

Publication: Theological Studies
Publication Date: 01-DEC-02
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
By Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, 2000. Pp. ix + 326. $55.

The book presents an excellent description of passages (called "texts") about the menstruant (niddah) culled from ancient rabbinic compilations ("classic rabbinic discourse"). The touchstone documents at issue, the Mishnah and the Talmud, are, of course, the fundamental documents of what emerged in the Jewish (i.e., rabbinic-based) religion in the fifth century C.E. Fonrobert duly notes (35-36; 230) the prevailing concern about menstruants in ancient Mediterranean societies and their gendered views of persons. However, in her view, the Ben Zakkaist tradition in the ethnocentric, patriarchal, and androcentric world of the rabbis dealt with this topic at all...

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