Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic And Christian Reconstructions Of Biblical Gender

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" This book is of central importance in the field of Rabbinic studies and the history of Judaism in late antiquity. The originality of Fonrobert' s work lies in the skill and nuance with which she brings a series of reading strategies and hermeneutical perspectives to Rabbinic texts." -- Martin S. Jaffe, University of Washington " Fonrobert' s analysis throughout is sophisticated and nuanced, avoiding false dichotomies between rabbis as good for or bad for women, looking instead for ways to talk about traditional texts about women and their bodies in new and productive ways that do not define women solely in terms of male-centered discourse. . . . Challenging and illuminating . . . Fonrobert' s work is an important contribution to the study of an area of Jewish ritual and gender that is at once sensitive to the complexities of the traditional sources and to the contemporary significance of her inquiries." -- The Forward

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