Time and life cycle in Talmud and Midrash [electronic resource] : socio-anthropological perspectives / Nissan Rubin.
Series: Judaism and Jewish lifePublication details: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008.Description: ix, 225 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 296.1/206 22
- BM700 .R83 2008eb
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E-Book | Strathmore University (Main Library) Online Resource | Link to resource | Not for loan |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-[209]) and indexes.
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 ha�ben 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.
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