Time and life cycle in Talmud and Midrash socio-anthropological perspectives /
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Judaism and Jewish life.
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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 haʼben 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.