Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The sources of impurity: the human corpse
- 2 The corpse in the tent: an excursus
- 3 The sources of impurity: menstruation
- 4 The sources of impurity: childbirth: the zabah and zab
- 5 Normal emission of semen
- 6 Animals and purity
- 7 Impurity and sacrifices
- 8 The Red Cow: the paradoxes
- 9 The Red Cow and niddah
- 10 Leprosy
- 11 The purification of the leper
- 12 Corpse and leper: an excursus
- 13 Ritual purity in the New Testament
- 14 Milgrom on purity in the Bible
- 15 From demons to ethics
- 16 Ritual purity and morality
- Appendix A The haberim
- Appendix B The rabbinic system of grades of impurity
- References
- Index of quotations
- General index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The sources of impurity: the human corpse
- 2 The corpse in the tent: an excursus
- 3 The sources of impurity: menstruation
- 4 The sources of impurity: childbirth: the zabah and zab
- 5 Normal emission of semen
- 6 Animals and purity
- 7 Impurity and sacrifices
- 8 The Red Cow: the paradoxes
- 9 The Red Cow and niddah
- 10 Leprosy
- 11 The purification of the leper
- 12 Corpse and leper: an excursus
- 13 Ritual purity in the New Testament
- 14 Milgrom on purity in the Bible
- 15 From demons to ethics
- 16 Ritual purity and morality
- Appendix A The haberim
- Appendix B The rabbinic system of grades of impurity
- References
- Index of quotations
- General index
Summary
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- Ritual and MoralityThe Ritual Purity System and its Place in Judaism, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999