Ritual and Morality: The Ritual Purity Systems and Its Place in Judaism Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
1	The sources of impurity: the human corpse	1
2	The corpse in the tent: an excursus	13
3	The sources of impurity: menstruation	30
4	The sources of impurity: childbirth: the zabah and zab	47
5	Normal emission of semen	58
6	Animals and purity	67
7	Impurity and sacrifices	81
8	The Red Cow: the paradoxes	94
9	The Red Cow and niddah	105
10	Leprosy	118
11	The purification of the leper	130
12	Corpse and leper: an excursus	141
13	Ritual purity in the New Testament	149
14	Milgrom on purity in the Bible	165
15	From demons to ethics	182
16	Ritual purity and morality	193
App. A	The haberim	209
App. B	The rabbinic system of grades of impurity	214
	References	216
	Index of quotations	221
	General index	226