The Talmud's red fence: menstrual impurity and difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian context

Preface

Reading Nidah in its Sasanian Context

Acknowledgements

Like a hedge of lilies: menstruation and difference in the "Iranian" Talmud

Lifeblood and deathblood: the physiology, etiology, and demonology of menstruation in Sasanian Judaism and Zoroastrianism

Impure gates: menstruation and identity in Sasanian religious life

Sasanian queen-mother and Her bloodstains: Talmudic menstrual purity and competing ritual systems

Inside-out and outside-in: the segregation of menstruants in the Talmud and its Sasanian Context

She counts for herself: peering beyond the Talmudic discourse of menstrual impurity

Conclusion: Nidah: an enduring difference.