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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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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.