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Beyond brutality : reclaiming female presence in Bavli Sotah / Jane Kanarek.
Loaned to Another Library BM506.S73 K36 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kanarek, Jane L., Author.
- Series:
- HBI series on Jewish women
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Talmud. Sotah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Talmud.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 218 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud as a literary unit. By interrogating how, why, and where women are invisible within Bavli Sotah, Jane Kanarek brings to light a ubiquitous female presence throughout the text"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 : The Disappearing Sotah and the Moral Man
- 2 : Changing the Topic
- 3 : Erased Women and Talmudic Redaction
- 4 : Language and National Catastrophe
- Failures of Care
- 6 : From War to Women.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Kanarek, Jane Beyond brutality
- ISBN:
- 9781684582693
- 1684582695
- 9781684582990
- 1684582997
- OCLC:
- 1502657565
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