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Gender and timebound commandments in Judaism /

"The rule that exempts women from rituals that need to be performed at specific times (so-called timebound, positive commandments) has served for centuries to stabilize Jewish gender. It has provided a rationale for women's centrality at home and their absence from the synagogue. Departing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, Elizabeth Shanks, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Gender and the Tannaitic rule. 1. The rule and social reality: conceiving the category, formulating the rule ; 2. Between man and woman: lists of male-female difference
  • Part II. Talmudic interpretation and the potential for gender. 3. How tefillin became a positive commandment not occasioned by time ; 4. Shifting orthodoxies ; 5. From description to prescription
  • Part III. Gender in women's ritual exemptions. 6. Women's exemption from Shema and tefillin ; 7. Torah study as ritual ; 8. The fringes debate: a conclusion of sorts ; 9. Epilogue.