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05040aam a2200541 i 4500 001 F02794669F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 190830t20202020enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019949399 020 $a 9780198856825 020 $a 0198856822 035 $a (OCoLC)1127664734 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 4 $a BM503.9 $b .S43 2020 100 1 $a Secunda, Shai, $e author. 245 14 $a The Talmud's red fence : $b menstrual impurity and difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian context / $c Shai Secunda. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom ; $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xvii, 203 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and indexes. 505 00 $g Conclusion: $t Nidah: an enduring difference. $g Acknowledgements -- $t Like a hedge of lilies: menstruation and difference in the "Iranian" Talmud -- $t Lifeblood and deathblood: the physiology, etiology, and demonology of menstruation in Sasanian Judaism and Zoroastrianism -- $t Impure gates: menstruation and identity in Sasanian religious life -- $t Sasanian queen-mother and Her bloodstains: Talmudic menstrual purity and competing ritual systems -- $t Inside-out and outside-in: the segregation of menstruants in the Talmud and its Sasanian Context -- $t She counts for herself: peering beyond the Talmudic discourse of menstrual impurity -- $g Conclusion: $t Nidah: an enduring difference. 520 8 $a The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation. It argues that the practice and development of menstrual rituals in Babylonian Judaism was a product of the religious terrain of the Sasanian Empire, where groups like Syriac Christians, Mandaeans, Zoroastrians, and Jews defined themselves in part based on how they approached menstrual impurity. It demonstrates that menstruation was highly charged in Babylonian Judaism and Sasanian Zoroastrian, where menstrual discharge was conceived of as highly productive female seed yet at the same time as stemming from either primordial sin (Eve eating from the tree) or evil (Ahrimen's kiss). It argues that competition between rabbis and Zoroastrians concerning menstrual purity put pressure on the Talmudic system, for instance in the unusual development of an expert diagnostic system of discharges. It shows how Babylonian rabbis seriously considered removing women from the home during the menstrual period, as Mandaeans and Zoroastrians did, yet in the end deemed this possibility too "heretical." Finally, it examines three cases of Babylonian Jewish women initiating menstrual practices that carved out autonomous female space. One of these, the extension of menstrual impurity beyond the biblically mandated seven days, is paralleled in both Zoroastrian Middle Persian and Mandaic texts. Ultimately, Talmudic menstrual purity is shown to be driven by difference in0its binary structure of pure and impure; in gendered terms; on a social axis between Jews and Sasanian non-Jewish communities; and textually in the way the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds took shape in late antiquity. 630 00 $a Talmud. $p Niddah $x Criticism, interpretation, etc. 630 07 $a Talmud. $p Niddah. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01359099 630 07 $a Talmud Bavli $x Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 nli 630 07 $a Talmud de Babylone $x Critique et exegese. $2 ram $0 (FrPBN)11975778 $0 (FrPBN)11975778 650 0 $a Menstruation $x Judaism. $x Judaism. 650 0 $a Menstruation $x Zoroastrianism. $x Zoroastrianism. 650 0 $a Women in rabbinical literature. 650 0 $a Women in Zoroastrianism. 650 7 $a Menstruation $x Judaism. $x Judaism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01016290 650 7 $a Menstruation $x Zoroastrianism. $x Zoroastrianism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02008146 650 7 $a Women in rabbinical literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177961 650 7 $a Women in Zoroastrianism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01747504 650 7 $a Menstruation $x Judaism. $x Judaism. $2 nli 650 7 $a Menstruation (Jewish law) $2 nli 650 7 $a Women in Zoroastrianism. $2 nli 650 7 $a Menstruation $x JudaiÂsme. $x JudaiÂsme. $2 ram $0 (FrPBN)13318429 $0 (FrPBN)11965510 $0 (FrPBN)13318429 650 7 $a Menstruation $x Zoroastrisme. $x Zoroastrisme. $2 ram $0 (FrPBN)11947457 $0 (FrPBN)11965510 $0 (FrPBN)11947457 650 7 $a Femmes $x Dans la litterature rabbinique. $2 ram $0 (FrPBN)17031814 $0 (FrPBN)17031814 650 7 $a Femmes et zoroastrisme. $2 ram $0 (FrPBN)16041735 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Secunda, Shai. $t Talmud's Red Fence. $b First edition. $d Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 $z 9780192598899 $w (OCoLC)1159164487 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018011716.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F02794669F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search