Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Mishnah, Niddah, 2.5
nan The sages spoke of a woman through a metaphor: A chamber, a vestibule and an upper chamber. The blood of the chamber is unclean, If blood is found in the vestibule, and there arises a doubt about its character, it is deemed unclean, because it is presumed to have come from the source."

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subject	book bibliographic info
body,female	Fonrobert and Jaffee (2007) 275
body,male	Fonrobert and Jaffee (2007) 275
miriams well	Ashbrook Harvey et al (2015) 226
mishnaic law,on body	Fonrobert and Jaffee (2007) 275
purity (impurity),menstrual (niddah)'	Fonrobert and Jaffee (2007) 275
roman context,law	Fonrobert and Jaffee (2007) 275
wells,and feminine archetype	Ashbrook Harvey et al (2015) 226
wells,miraculous	Ashbrook Harvey et al (2015) 226
women,conflicting views of,in biblical and rabbinic tradition	Ashbrook Harvey et al (2015) 226