Menstruation as an image of impurity in Isaiah, Lamentations and Ezekiel

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1. You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You
will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, Get out!
(Isaiah 30:22, NET)
2. And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a
menstrual cloth,
(Isaiah 64:6, LEB)
3. Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; (Lamentations 1:9, NET)
4. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her
monthly period. (Ezekiel 36:17, NET)

Menstruation as an image of impurity in Isaiah, Lamentations and Ezekiel (Isaiah

30:22, Isaiah 64:6, Lamentations 64:6, Ezekiel 36:17)

Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution

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The present collection of essays is an effort to return to a cultural analysis of
menstruation, looking at the vital liquids that each culture has to deal with and
represent in some way. Its title, Blood Mysteries, highlights the connections
between menstruation and ideas of blood sacrifice, diseases of the blood, gendered
difference, and cultural difference. Because blood, that fluid which keeps us
alive, appears as a religious mystery to many people, Bengali Baul singers may
ingest menstrual blood, Balinese housewives may use it to place spells on their
husbands, Yupik women may cover themselves with fake menstrual blood to escape
rape, and Kodi textile dyers may group indigo dyeing and herbal fertility
treatments together as the "blue arts" of the occult. Menstrual blood can be
conceived as simultaneously polluting and purifying, as a wound and a normal sign
of good health.
Janet Hoskins: "Introduction: Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i387862

Special Issue: Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution

https://www.jstor.org/stable/i387862