Title Feminist rereadings of rabbinic literature / Inbar Reveh ; translated by Kaeren Fish

Published Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 205 pages) Series HBI series on Jewish women HBI series on Jewish women. Contents Back to the breast: an aspect of feminine sexuality in the imagined world of the sages -- 2. Desire and dominion -- 3. "They let the children live": the midwives at a political crossroads -- 4. Judith, wife of R. Hiyya: a story of women's pain -- 5. The voice of doubt: the wife of R. Simeon ben Halafta and the uncanny -- 6. Open to conquest: prostitution, temptations and responses -- 7. Myth in the attic: the call of the deep -- 8. The creation of woman: men are from Babylon; women are from the land of Israel Summary Novel readings of rabbinic literature from the perspective of feminism and gender reading theories Notes Translated from the Hebrew Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Women in rabbinical literature. Women in Judaism. Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Women in Judaism Women in rabbinical literature Form Electronic book Author Fish, Kaeren, translator LC no. 2021693124 ISBN 9781611686098 1611686091 1322242321 9781322242323

Other Titles Bi-fene ʻatsman. English

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