1. Semantics of Taboo: Menstrual Prohibitions in the Hebrew Bible / Kathleen O'Grady
2. Menstrual Impurity and Innovation in Leviticus 15 / Deborah Ellens
3. Blood: A Threat to Holiness or toward (Another) Holiness? / Kristin De Troyer
4. Purity and Impurity in Halakic Sources and Qumran Law / Mayer I. Gruber
5. Woman in Childbirth of John 16:21: A Feminist Reading in (Pro)creative Boundary Crossing / Kathleen P. Rushton
6. Doctors, Philosophers, and Christian Fathers on Menstrual Blood / Jennifer Schultz
7. Old Rite of the Churching of Women after Childbirth / Susan K. Roll
8. Better Blood: On Sacrifice and the Churching of New Mothers in the Roman Catholic Tradition / Grietje Dresen
9. Female Blood Rituals: Cultural-Anthropological Findings and Feminist-Theological Reflections / Anne-Marie Korte
10. Shedding Blood: The Sanctifying Rite of Heroes / Judith Ann Johnson.