Saturday, April 25, 2020

"Bloods of purity?"

PROF. TAMAR KAMIONKOWSKI: Postpartum “Bloods of Purity” (TheTorah.com).
Mesopotamian gynecological texts and what we know about women’s post-partum flow are helpful in parsing the unusual Hebrew idiom demei tohorah, literally, “bloods of purity,” used in Leviticus 12 to describe the second stage of postpartum bleeding.

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