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The Talmud's Red Fence - Menstrual Impurity And Difference In Babylonian Judaism And Its Sasanian Context (Hardcover)
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The Talmud's Red Fence - Menstrual Impurity And Difference In Babylonian Judaism And Its Sasanian Context (Hardcover)
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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. It shows 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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