Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Mapping
Part 1: Exegetical Analysis
Chapter 2; Leviticus 12
Chapter 3: Leviticus 15
Part 2: Biblical Anthropology as Discourse of the Body
Chapter 4: Flesh
Chapter 5: Bodily Fluids
Chapter 6: Menstruation
Chapter 7: The Cultic Perspective
Chapter 8: Prospects
Bibliography

Promotional Information

Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds.

About the Author

Professor Dorothea Erbele-Küster, PhD, teaches Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible at the Protestant Faculty in Brussels (B) and in Kampen (NL).

Reviews

On the whole there is much here to appreciate ... There are observations aplenty to debate ... It would not be safe for anyone working in the area to ignore this book.
*The Expository Times*