1.     Jewish Life

1.1.      Laws of Kashrut

1.1.1.       Clean and unclean animals. Leviticus 11:1-47

1.1.2.       Slaughter. Deuteronomy 12:21–24

1.1.3.       Slaughter. Mishnah Hullin 1:1-2

1.1.4.       Mother and offspring. Exodus 23:19

1.1.5.       Meat and Dairy. Mishnah Hullin 8:1

1.2.      Family

1.2.1.       Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael. Genesis 16:1-16; 21:1-20 (RSV)

1.2.2.       Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah. Genesis 24 (RSV)

1.2.3.       Rachel and Leah. Genesis 29:15-30:24. (RSV)

1.2.4.       The Rape of Dinah. Genesis 34:1-31. (RSV)

1.2.5.       Tamar. Genesis 38:1-26 (RSV)

1.2.6.       Deborah and Jael. Judges 4:1-22. (RSV)

1.2.7.       Jephthah’s Daughter. Judges 11:29-40 (RSV)

1.2.8.       The Levite’s Concubine. Judges 19:1-30 (RSV)

1.2.9.       Ruth and Boaz. Ruth 1-4. (RSV)

1.2.10.     The Expulsion of foreign wives. Ezra 9:1-4; 10:6-44 (RSV)

1.2.11.     Tobias and Sarah. Tobit 6:10-8:21 (RSV)

1.2.12.     Virginity. Deuteronomy 22:13-21. (RSV)

1.2.13.     Adultery. Deuteronomy 22:22-30. (RSV)

1.2.14.     Divorce and Remarriage. Deuteronomy 24:1-4. (RSV)

1.2.15.     Trial of Wife Suspected of Adultery. Numbers 5:11-31. (RSV)

1.2.16.     Inheritance of Daughters. Numbers 27:1-11. (RSV)

1.2.17.     Purification of women after childbirth. Leviticus 12:1-8 (RSV)

1.2.18.     Purity Laws. Leviticus 15:1-32 (RSV)

1.2.19.     Forbidden Relationships. Leviticus 18:1-30 (RSV)

1.2.20.     Slaves and Wives. Exodus 21:1-11 (RSV)

1.2.21.     Vows of Women. Numbers 30:1-16 (RSV)

1.2.22.     Marriage. Genesis 2:18-25 (RSV)

1.2.23.     The Seductress. Proverbs 5:3-6 (RSV)

1.2.24.     The Virtuous Wife. Proverbs 31:10-31 (RSV)

1.2.25.     Rufina’s Inscription (2nd c. CE, Smyrna)

1.2.26.     Woman as embodiment of divine glory. b. Qiddushin 31b

1.2.27.     Woman as source of impurity. b. Shabb. 152 a.

1.2.28.     Getting a wife. Mishnah Kiddushin 1:1

1.2.29.     Marriage Blessings. Bavli Ketubot 8a

1.2.30.     Weddings. Mishnah Ketubot 1:1

1.2.31.     Babatha’s Ketubah.

1.2.32.     Marriage Contract for Shelamzion and Judah. 5 April, 128 CE.

1.2.33.     Mibtahiah’s Marriage Contracts, Elephantine, Egypt (459-440 BCE)

[translation by H. L. Ginsberg; adapted from http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Contracts/marri01.html, prepared by Alan Humm, 1995]

1.2.33.1       Mibtahiah's first marriage; 459 B.C. (Cowley #9).

1.2.33.2       Dissolution of Mibtahiah's second marriage, 440 BC: Settlement of claim by oath (Cowley #14)

1.2.33.3       Contract of Mibtahiah's third marriage oath, ca. 440 BC (Cowley #15)

1.3.      Slaves

1.3.1.       Manumission of a female slave and her daughter, June 12, 427 B.C.

1.3.2.       Marriage contract of a former slave girl who is subject to paramoné, 420 B.C.

1.4.      Divorce

1.4.1.       Divorce. Mishnah Gittin 9:3, 10

2.     Ritual Purity

2.1.      Ritual Immersion: Mikveh

2.1.1.       Link to picture of mikveh

2.1.2.       Mishnah Miqvao’ot 2:1-2; 8:1

2.2.      Washing of Hands.

2.2.1.       Mishnah Yadayim 1:1-3