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Midrashic Women Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature / Judith R. Baskin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baskin, Judith Reesa, 1950-
- Series:
- Brandeis series on Jewish women.
- Brandeis series on Jewish women
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the Bible.
- Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Midrash--History and criticism.
- Women in rabbinical literature.
- Midrash.
- Aggada.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Commentaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Hannover : Published by University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781611688696
- 1611688698
- OCLC:
- 1227050995
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