A Woman's Life: The discovery of an ancient Israelite and Babylonian purification ritual

This book is a work of historical anthropology and tells the story of how the author discovered an ancient post-menstruation purification ritual. How the ritual came to be discovered is a story in itself because the ritual was not simply forgotten, but quite deliberately written out of the history of Israel. Such an important discovery would normally be written up as an academic paper and presented to one of the established anthropological journals for publication to be peer reviewed and perhaps ten years down the road someone would at last make it known to the general public. But that is not the person I am. I am now in my seventy-seventh year and have lost patience with the system. I want to reach out to everyone now and for that reason have written this book for ordinary, non-academic women. This is womens' history, the story of how menstruating women were once considered blessed by the Goddess. So the book is more a conversation than dry history and is a story every woman should know. Read more