Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash

Nissan Rubin (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, 1977) is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University. His published books include: Research Methods in Social Science - Strategy, Design and Measurement. Tel-Aviv: Dekel, 1978 (with Ernest Krausz and Steven H. Miller), The Beginning of Life: Rites of Birth, Circumcision and Redemption of the First-Born in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad, 1995 The End of Life: Rites of Burial and Mourning in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha- Meuchad, 1988 and The Joy of Life: Rites of Betrothal and Marriage in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad, 2004.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsPart 1: Introduction1. the Sociology and Anthropology of Talmudic TextsPart 2: Time2. The Clothing of the Primordial Adam as a Symbol of Apocalyptic Time in the Midrashic Sources (with Admiel Kosman)Part 3: Birth and Marriage3. Brit Milah: A Study of Change in Custom4. Coping with the Value of the Pidyon Ha'ben Payment in Rabbinic Literature: An Example of a Scoial Change Process5. Birth and Marriage Rituals: Women's Status in a Critical Reading of the TextsPart 4: Death6. The Sages' Conception of the Body and Soul7. From Corpse to Corpus: The Body as a Text in Talmudic Literature8. Birkat Avelim - The Blessing of Mourners: Ritual Aspects of Social ChangeBibliographyGeneral IndexAuthor IndexSource Index.

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