Deviancy in early rabbinic literature a collection of socio-anthropological essays /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fishbane, Simcha
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • The case of the modified mamzer in early rabbinic texts
  • "As the vows of the evil folk" : the structure and implicit message of Mishnah's tractate Nazir
  • "In the case of women-any hand which makes many examinations is to be praised" : niddah as viewed by the rabbis of the Mishnah
  • "Most women engage in sorcery" : an analysis of female sorceresses in the Babylonian Talmud
  • "Go and enjoy your acquisition" : the prostitute in the Babylonian Talmud
  • "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" : the physically handicapped in the Mishnah
  • Toward an understanding of the methodology of Mishnah : the case of kutim
  • Descriptive or prescriptive : the case of the gentile in Mishnah
  • Deviancy in battle : rituals and the Israelite soldier in the Torah and the Mishnah : an anthropological understanding
  • "Every dream becomes valid only by its interpretation" : dreams, dream interpretations and dream interpreters in the Babylonian Talmud.