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Eve Levavi Feinstein

Eve Levavi Feinstein holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and is the author of Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible. She works as a writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Menstruation in the Bible

The Bible reflects multiple perspectives on menstruation. Early biblical narrative relates to it straightforwardly as a biological function, while biblical law treats it as a source of ritual impurity, and in several late texts it functions as a metaphor for sin.