Time and life cycle in Talmud and midrash
Subtitle: socio-anthropological perspectives
By: Nissan Rubin.
Series: Judaism and Jewish life
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781934843079
Subjects: Talmud; Judaism -- Customs and practices; Life cycle, Human -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism; Midrash; Sociology; Anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sociology and anthropology of Talmudic texts; title: The clothing of the primordial Adam as a symbol of apocalyptic time in the midrashic sources; title: Brit milah: a study of change in custom; title: Coping with the value of the pidyon ha-ben payment in rabbinic literature: an example of a social change process; title: Birth and marriage rituals: women's status in a critical reading of the texts; title: The sages' conception of the body and soul; title: From corpse to corpus: the body as a text in Talmudic literature; title: Birkat avelim; title: the blessing of mourners: ritual aspects of social change.