Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature - Couverture souple

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Baskin, Judith R.

 
9781584651789: Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
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ISBN 10 : 1584651784 ISBN 13 : 9781584651789
Editeur : Brandeis University Press, 2002

Synopsis

While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature. Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives of creation, and justifications of female disadvantages, as well as aggadic understandings of the ideal wife, the dilemma of infertility, and women among women and as individuals, she shows that rabbinic Judaism, a tradition formed by men for a male community, deeply valued the essential contributions of wives and mothers while also consciously constructing women as other and lesser than men. Recent feminist scholarship has illuminated many aspects of the significance of gender in biblical and halakhic texts but there has been little previous study of how aggadic literature portrays females and the feminine. Such representations, Baskin argues, often offer a more nuanced and complex view of women and their actual lives than the rigorous proscriptions of legal discourse.

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À propos de l?auteur

JUDITH R. BASKIN is Director of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. She is author of Pharaoh's Counsellors (1983) and editor of Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (Second edition, 1998) and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994).

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Éditeur
Brandeis University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1584651784
ISBN 13 
9781584651789
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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9781584651772: Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

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ISBN 10 :  1584651776 ISBN 13 :  9781584651772
Editeur : Brandeis University Press, 2002
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