How Long to Read Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature by Mira Balberg

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Description

This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbisÕ new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between oneÕs self and oneÕs body and, more broadly, the relations between oneÕs self and oneÕs human and nonhuman environments. With their...

How long is Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature?

Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature by Mira Balberg is 276 pages long, and a total of 70,656 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 26 minutes to read Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature?

Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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