ISBN:
9789004332454
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 346 pages)
Year of publication:
1997
Series Statement:
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 41
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mine and Yours are Hers: Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature
Keywords:
Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Talmud Sources
;
Talmud
;
Women in rabbinical literature
;
Women in Judaism Historiography
;
Rabbinical literature History and criticism
;
Rabbinical literature
;
Women in rabbinical literature
;
Women in Judaism ; Historiography
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Sources
Abstract:
Preliminary material /TAL ILAN -- PREFACE /TAL ILAN -- INTRODUCTION /TAL ILAN -- ESTABLISHING THE CORRECT TEXT /TAL ILAN -- CENSORSHIP /TAL ILAN -- TANNAITIC VERSUS AMORAIC SOURCES PALESTINIAN VERSUS BABYLONIAN TRADITIONS /TAL ILAN -- UNIVERSAL CRITERIA /TAL ILAN -- RABBINIC LITERATURE AND EXTERNAL SOURCES /TAL ILAN -- METHODS OF HISTORICAL DEDUCTION FROM HALAKHIC TEXTS /TAL ILAN -- SPECIFIC CRITERIA FOR WOMEN /TAL ILAN -- WOMEN'S HISTORY AND FEMALE LANGUAGE IN HALAKHIC LITERATURE /TAL ILAN -- EXTRACTING WOMEN'S HISTORY FROM AGGADAH /TAL ILAN -- WHAT'S IN A NAME? WOMEN'S NAMES AS AN ATTESTATION TO THEIR HISTORICITY /TAL ILAN -- CONCLUSIONS /TAL ILAN -- APPENDIX 1 THE MATRONA-AND-RABBI-YOSE CORPUS /TAL ILAN -- APPENDIX 2 CORPUS OF NON-BIBLICAL NAMED WOMEN IN RABBINIC LITERATURE /TAL ILAN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /TAL ILAN -- Indices /TAL ILAN -- ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS UND DES URCHRISTENTUMS /TAL ILAN.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-331) and indexes
DOI:
10.1163/9789004332454
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