Endnote 2 – Purity and Impurity in Iron Age Israel
Ehud Netzer only quotes Moshe Weinfled’s suggestion that the rigid planning of the four-room house might have facilitated “the separation between purity and impurity—such as the avoidance of a woman during menstruation.” See Ehud Netzer, “Domestic Architecture in the Iron Age,” in Aharon Kempinski and Ronny Reich, eds., The Architecture of Ancient Israel from the Prehistoric to the Persian Period (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1992) p. 19, n. 24.