ISBN:
1584651776
,
1584651784
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 232 S.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2002
Series Statement:
Brandeis series on Jewish women
DDC:
296.1406082
Keywords:
Women in rabbinical literature
;
Aggada Commentaries
;
Midrash History and criticism
;
Feminism Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Women in the Bible
;
Women in rabbinical literature
;
Aggada Commentaries
;
Midrash History and criticism
;
Feminism Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Women in the Bible
;
Frau
;
Aggadah
;
Feminismus
;
Aggadah
;
Rabbinische Literatur
;
Midrasch
;
Frau
;
Judaistik
;
Frauenforschung
Abstract:
Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren? : resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people : Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women.
Description / Table of Contents:
the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve: midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses: female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners: women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren?: resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people: Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-212) and indexes
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