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Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert. Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ix, 326 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

Gail Labovitz
Gail Labovitz
Affiliation:
Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, New York
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Extract

This book is presented as “first a study of the classic rabbinic discourse on menstruation and of the range of meanings that talmudic literature accords to women's bodies in its discourse on Niddah” (p. 1). As the presence of the word “Christian” in the subtitle would suggest, however, the actual contents of the book are somewhat broader. The range of materials covered are all worthy of scholarly examination and analysis, which Fonrobert ably and engagingly provides. Yet, the wide reach of this book contributes to both its strengths and its weaknesses.

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AJS Review , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , November 2003 , pp. 322 - 325
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© 2003 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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