Time and life cycle in Talmud and Midrash : socio-anthropological perspectives / / Nissan Rubin.
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| Superior document: | Judaism and Jewish life |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Judaism and Jewish life.
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| Physical Description: | ix, 225 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The sociology and anthropology of Talmudic texts
- The clothing of the primordial Adam as a symbol of apocalyptic time in the Midrashic sources
- Brit milah: a study of change in custom
- Coping with the value of the Pidyon haben payment in rabbinic literature: an example of a social change process
- Birth and marriage rituals: women's status in a critical reading of the texts
- The sages' conception of the body and soul
- From corpse to corpus: the body as a text in Talmudic literature
- Birkat avelim--the blessing of mourners: ritual aspects of social change.