The Legislation of Leviticus 12 in Light of Ancient Embryology
Interpreters have provided numerous unsatisfactory reasons for why priestly literature stipulates that women endure a longer impurity after the birth of a girl than they endure after the birth of a boy. This article situates Leviticus 12 within a wide range of medical discourses, found in Hittite, G...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2018, Volume: 68, Issue: 2, Pages: 297-319 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Levitikus 12
/ Woman
/ Birth
/ Purity
/ Embryology
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RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
Childbirth
embryology
lochial discharge
medicine
postpartum
ritual impurity
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