Mine and yours are hers : retrieving women's history from rabbinic literature /
This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. Recent approaches to rabbinic literature have overturned the traditional view of these writings and new literary methods were suggested, mostly denying them all historical value. But rabbinic literature co...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; New York :
Brill,
1997.
Series:
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums
41.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.
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Call Number: BM509.W7 I43 1997
| Summary: | This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. Recent approaches to rabbinic literature have overturned the traditional view of these writings and new literary methods were suggested, mostly denying them all historical value. But rabbinic literature constitutes the main source for the lives of Jews in Palestine and Babylonia during the late Roman period, and thus should not be totally rejected. This study suggests a new post-literary approach, id est it discusses the residue of the texts after these have been analyzed and dissected by literary critics. But mainly this is a book about women's history, adopting many assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and approaches them with due suspicion. The Rabbis treated women differently from the way they treated men. This resulted in the former's marginalization and manipulation by the texts. On the other hand, however, it created an ironic situation whereby principles useful for the recovery of historical information on women, are useless when applied to men. This study describes such principles and demonstrates them with the help of many examples. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 346 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-331) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004332454 |
| ISSN: | 0169-734X ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |