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Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature / Max K. Strassfeld

Englisch

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2022]

©2022

1 Online-Ressource (262 p.)

Rezensiert in: Kitsos, Michail: [Rezension von: Strassfeld, Max K., 1976-, Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature], 2023

In English

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Strassfeld, Max K. *1976-*: Trans Talmud. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2022. - ix, 248 Seiten

978-0-520-38206-0

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-520-38205-3 (Druckausgabe) : print

DOI: 10.1525/9780520382060

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Transing Late Antiquity: The Politics of the Study of Eunuchs and Androgynes

2 The Gendering of Law: The Androgyne and the Hybrid Animal in Bikkurim

3 Sex with Androgynes

4 Transing the Eunuch: Kosher and Damaged Masculinity

5 Eunuch Temporality: The Saris and the Aylonit

Conclusion: Rereading the Rabbis (Again)

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

*Rabbinische Literatur / Eunuch / Androgynie

*Judentum / Rabbinische Literatur / Eunuch / Androgynie / Männlichkeit

*Androgyny (Psychology) -- Religious aspects ; Eunuchs -- Religious aspects ; Gender nonconformity -- Religious aspects -- Judaism ; Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Judaism ; Sex in rabbinical literature

*HISTORY / Ancient / General

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BM729.T65 ; BM729.T65

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 296.3086/7;

bisacsh: HIS002000

Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law

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