Name: The Talmud'S red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context
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Author: Secunda, Shai
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The Talmud'S red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context

Type

Physical Book

Author

Shai Secunda

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780198856825

Synopsis "The Talmud'S red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context "

The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation. It argues that the practice and development of menstrual rituals in Babylonian Judaism was a product of the religious terrain of the Sasanian Empire, where groups like Syriac Christians, Mandaeans, Zoroastrians, and Jews defined themselves in part based on how they approached menstrual impurity. It demonstrates that menstruation was highly charged in Babylonian Judaism and Sasanian Zoroastrian, where menstrual discharge was conceived of as highly productive female seed yet at the same time as stemming from either primordial sin (Eve eating from the tree) or evil (Ahrimen's kiss). It argues that competition between rabbis and Zoroastrians concerning menstrual purity put pressure on the Talmudic system, for instance in the unusual development of an expert diagnostic system of discharges. Itshows how Babylonian rabbis seriously considered removing women from the home during the menstrual period, as Mandaeans and Zoroastrians did, yet in the end deemed this possibility too "heretical." Finally, it examines three cases of Babylonian Jewish women initiating menstrual practices that carved out autonomous female space. One of these, the extension of menstrual impurity beyond the biblically mandated seven days, is paralleled in both Zoroastrian Middle Persian and Mandaic texts. Ultimately, Talmudic menstrual purity is shown to be driven by difference in its binary structure of pure and impure; in gendered terms; on a social axis between Jews and Sasanian non-Jewish communities; and textually in the way the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds took shape in late antiquity.

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