Call for Contributions to Source Reader: Between Flesh and Water

11. Dezember 2025

Laura Arnold Leibman (Princeton University) and Anabella Esperanza (Tel Aviv University) invite scholars from all academic disciplines to contribute to the forthcoming source reader: Between Flesh and Water: Documenting the Global Story of Jewish Women and Ritual Purity.

Topics of a wide range concerning the

  • Material Culture and Archeological Evidence
  • Ritual Purity and Religious Thought and Law
  • Medical Debates
  • Social Histories of Ritual Impurity
  • Production of Knowledge and Transmissions
  • Literary and Artistic Representations
  • The Body, Embodiment and Lived Experience
  • Inter-religious, Local and Transregional Comparative Frameworks
  • Spatial Organization & Architecture of Ritual Baths
  • Gender, Class and Authority
  • Oral Histories

are welcome.

Deadline for proposals: January 20, 2026 | DETAILS

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