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Author: Kathy Ehrensperger
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: 2022-05-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781978707887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender and Second Temple Judaism examines the myriad constructions of gender in Second Temple Judaism including early Christianity. The chapters examine the state of the field and methodology and hone in on specific texts.
Author: Ṭal Ilan
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565635470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen were present at historical events, and it is not only their presence but also their significance at these events which should be recognized. Tal Ilan seeks to discover women in the public spaces and main events of Second Temple Judaism. Ilan investigates women s association with the Pharisees and other sects. She analyzes women s roles in the writings of Josephus, Ben Sira, and other important sources. Furthermore she discusses famous women like Beruriah and Berenice. Also, the Dead Sea Scrolls play an important part in her study.
Author: Daniel C. Harlow
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-02-08
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 0802866255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a conference held Apr. 4-5, 2008 at Amherst College.
Author: Miriam Peskowitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1136667156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudaism Since Gender offers a radically new concept of Jewish Studies, staking out new intellectual terrain and redefining the discipline as an intrinsically feminist practice. The question of how knowledge is gendered has been discussed by philosophers and feminists for years, yet is still new to many scholars of Judaism. Judaism Since Gender illuminates a crucial debate among intellectuals both within and outside the academy, and ultimately overturns the belief that scholars of Judaism are still largely oblivious of recent developments in the study of gender. Offering a range of provocations--Jewish men as sissies, Jesus as transvestite, the problem of eroticizing Holocaust narratives--this timely collection pits the joys of transgression against desires for cultural wholeness.
Author: Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-22
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107035562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines a key tradition in Judaism (the rule that exempts women from "timebound, positive commandments"), which has served for centuries to stabilize women's roles. Against every other popular and scholarly perception of the rule, Elizabeth Shanks Alexander demonstrates that the rule was not intended to have such consequences. She narrates the long and complicated history of the rule, establishing the reasons for its initial formulation and the shifts in interpretation that led to its being perceived as a key marker of Jewish gender.
Author: Ilan Stavans
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ISBN-13: 9780199913701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.
Author: Michaela Bauks
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 3647552674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of the present conference volume is to study the interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical investigation of gender. Paradigmatically the significance and meaning of gender and sexuality is explored in the context of private and public, religious and secular spaces. Historical, cultural, and social norms (and deviations) of daily life are examined through the lens of textual, archaeological, and art historical investigations to interpret relics of ancient Israelite, Jewish, and Christian communities from the Iron Age through Late Antiquity. Scholars from varied disciplines such as biblical and classical archaeology, epigraphy, Old and New Testament exegesis and religious studies assembled to engage in a dialogue involving both texts and material culture.
Author: William Loader
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2009-08-05
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0802863914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Loader here investigates the Dead Sea Scrolls, mining every document of potential relevance for understanding ancient attitudes towards sexuality, aside from the biblical writings and there are many such documents. They include the Temple Scroll, 4QMMT, the Damascus Document, and a number of legal, liturgical, wisdom, and exegetical documents. These texts treat a wide range of matters pertaining to sexuality, from ritual and cultic concerns to visions of human community and family in future expectation. Far from the common view that the writers of the Scrolls held a low view of sexuality and marriage, Loader concludes that most of these sources reflect an affirmative stance towards sex and marriage within a framework of clear boundaries marking out where sex did and did not belong. / The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality offers the first comprehensive treatment of this subject and comprises both detailed exegetical discussion of each work and a synthetic analysis of themes. The attention to detail displayed and the helpful summaries included make this book an indispensable resource for both scholar and general reader.
Author: Lawrence A. Hoffman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780226347837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCentral to both biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary, circumcision has remained a defining rite of Jewish identity, a symbol so powerful that challenges to it have always been considered taboo. Lawrence Hoffman seeks to find out why circumcision holds such an important place in the Jewish psyche. He traces the symbolism of circumcision through Jewish history, examining its evolution as a symbol of the covenant in the post-exilic period of the Bible and its subsequent meaning in the formative era of Mishnah and Talmud. In the rabbinic system, Hoffman argues, circumcision was neither a birth ritual nor the beginning of the human life cycle, but a rite of covenantal initiation into a male "life line." Although the evolution of the rite was shaped by rabbinic debates with early Christianity, the Rabbis shared with the church a view of blood as providing salvation. Hoffman examines the particular significance of circumcision blood, which, in addition to its salvific role, contrasted with menstrual blood to symbolize the gender dichotomy within the rabbinic system. His analysis of the Rabbis' views of circumcision and menstrual blood sheds light on the marginalization of women in rabbinic law. Differentiating official mores about gender from actual practice, Hoffman surveys women's spirituality within rabbinic society and examines the roles mothers played in their sons' circumcisions until the medieval period, when they were finally excluded.
Author: Shayna Sheinfeld
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1978714564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts. The sources examined are predominantly products of patriarchal elite discourses requiring innovative approaches to unveil aspects of gender otherwise hidden. This volume extends the discussion represented in the volume Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020) and highlights the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research beyond anachronistic discipline distinctions.
