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

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Author / Creator:Fishbane, Simcha.
Imprint:Boston : Brill, 2007.
Description:xi, 234 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; v. 27
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8210875
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ISBN:9789047420187
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.
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Other form:Deviancy in early rabbinic literature 9789004158337 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9004158332 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard no.:10.1163/ej.9789004158337.i-234
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.