Midrashic Women : Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature /
Baskin focuses on the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hannover :
Published by University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.