عنوان

The status of women in Jewish tradition /

(Number (ISBN

1107001749 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9781107001749 (hardback)

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b519842

Title Proper

The status of women in Jewish tradition /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Isaac Sassoon

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxix, 200 p. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and indexes

Text of Note

Part I. Monogamy: 1. The sources; 2. Pro-CD arguments; 3. Anti-CD arguments; 4. Indeterminate arguments; 5. Make-or-break argument; 6. Which way does the evidence point?; 7. Gen. 1:27-29 revisited -- Part II. Commandments (Misvot): 8. Zeman gerama; 9. Derekh; 10. The scriptural evidence; 11. Deuteronomy: a pattern; 12. The priestly Torah; 13. Two writers on purity law; 14. Torah study -- Part III. Intrinsic equality: 15. The Qatlanit law; 16. "Rankings" of Horayot 3:7; 17. Venus and mars; 18. Covenant; 19. Gauging purity's weight in p; 20. Body and soul -- Conclusion

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Text of Note

"Is the inferiority of women integral to the Torah's vision? This book sets out to determine where the Bible, the Talmud, and related literature, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, rise above patriarchal self-interest"--

Text of Note

"Most ancient societies were patriarchal in outlook, but not all patriarchies are equally condescending toward women. Impelled by the gnawing question of whether the inferiority of women is integral to the Torah's vision, Sassoon sets out to determine where the Bible, the Talmud, and related literature, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, sit on this continuum of patriarchal condescension. Of course, there are multiple voices in both Biblical and Talmudic literature, but more surprising is how divergent these voices are. Some points of view seem intent on the disenfranchisement and domestication of women, whereas others prove to be not far short of egalitarian. Opinions that downplay the applicability of the Biblical commandments to women and that strongly deprecate Torah study by women emerge from this study as arguably no more than the views of an especially vocal minority"--

Bible., Old Testament-- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Dead Sea scrolls

Rabbinical literature-- History and criticism

Women in Judaism

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Edition

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Sassoon, I. S. D

Date of Transaction

20110513000930.0

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[Book]

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