Massekhet Keritot

Author : Federico Dal Bo
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 3161526619

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Massekhet Keritot by Federico Dal Bo Pdf

The tractate Keritot of the Babylonian Talmud belongs to the Order of Qodashim in the Mishnah. It discusses the Temple and its rituals, especially sacrifices, but deals mostly with laws of incest, sexual transgressions, childbirth, and miscarriages. In this commentary, Federico Dal Bo provides a historical, philological and philosophical investigation on these gender issues. He discusses almost the entire tractate, referring to many other sources, Jewish (the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Sifra, and other rabbinic texts) as well as non-Jewish (Akkadian, Hittite, and Ugaritic). The author also provides accurate philological observations both on the Mishnah and the Gemara. Finally, he addresses gender issues by combining a reductionistic approach to Talmudic study (the so called "Brisker method") with philosophical deconstruction. Dal Bo shows that in nearly the entire tractate Keritot the rabbis discuss human sexuality in a tendentious and restrictive way, claiming that heterosexuality is the only proper sexual contact and progressively stigmatizing any other kind of sexual behavior.

Author : Tal Ilan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161552008

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Massekhet Hullin by Tal Ilan Pdf

The Babylonian Talmud's Tractate Hullin is the longest in the Order of Qodashim with twelve chapters and over 140 pages. The Order of Qodashim ("holy things") in general deals with the Temple. The word hullin, however, means "profane things" and actually describes the kosher slaughter of beasts for human consumption outside the temple. Even though this topic is not overtly gendered, and neither does it pertain specifically to women, Tal Ilan discusses over 100 traditions that touch on women and gender. She shows that "women" forever served as good "tools" with which to discuss various topics such as halakhic reliability, or the use of magic, but more specifically that while the tractate is intensely interested in beasts and beast anatomy, women most often serve as points of comparison with beasts for authors of the Talmud. In this way, the rabbinic world view of the intermediate position of women between human and beast is repeatedly demonstrated throughout the tractate.

Author : Marcus van Loopik
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Talmud
ISBN : 3161456440

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The Ways of the Sages and the Way of the World by Marcus van Loopik Pdf

Author : Shayna Sheinfeld,Juni Hoppe,Kathy Ehrensperger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978714564

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Constructions of Gender in Religious Traditions of Late Antiquity by Shayna Sheinfeld,Juni Hoppe,Kathy Ehrensperger Pdf

This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts. The sources examined are predominantly products of patriarchal elite discourses requiring innovative approaches to unveil aspects of gender otherwise hidden. This volume extends the discussion represented in the volume Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020) and highlights the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research beyond anachronistic discipline distinctions.

Author : David Yeroushalmi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004494862

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The Judeo-Persian Poet 'Emrānī and his “Book of Treasure” by David Yeroushalmi Pdf

In the course of their long history on Iranian soil the Jews of Iran have produced a large body of literature which has been little studied and published. This volume deals with one of the most prominent Jewish poets of Iran, known as 'Emrānī (1454-1536 C.E.). The book consists of three parts. The first part studies 'Emrānī's time, life and work and analyzes in depth the poet's last major work entitled Ganj-nāme (The Book of Treasure). Ganj-nāme, which is closely modeled after compositions of classical Persian literature, is 'Emrānī's versified commentary of the ethical tractate of the Mishnah commonly known as Pirqey Abot (“The Chapters of the Fathers”). The second part of the book offers the English translation, annotation and source study of Ganj-nāme. The third and last part of the book provides a critical edition of Ganj-nāme.

Author : Frank Jacob,Sebastian Kunze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110545753

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Jewish Radicalisms by Frank Jacob,Sebastian Kunze Pdf

Radical thoughts and acts are merely a non-conformist attitude; they are usually marginal and are directed against the ruling society. Thereby, these radical thoughts and acts could be classified as politcally left or right, progressive or reactionary. The volume wants to sharpen the term “Jewish Radicalism” and provide different perspectives on the historical phenomenon and its dimensions.

Author : William M. Schniedewind,Jason M. Zurawski,Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628375046

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Torah by William M. Schniedewind,Jason M. Zurawski,Gabriele Boccaccini Pdf

The present volume explores the ever-evolving understandings and diverse manifestations of the Hebrew notion of torah in early Jewish and Christian literature and the different roles torah played within those communities, whether in Judea or in the Hellenistic and early Roman diaspora. This collection of essays is purposefully wide-ranging, with contributors exploring and rethinking some of the most basic scholarly assumptions and preconceptions about the nature of torah in light of new critical approaches and methodologies with the goal of seeing how different vantage points and different conclusions can better address the complexity of the topic and better reflect the ambiguity and fluidity inherent in the concept of torah itself. Contributors include Gabriele Boccaccini, Francis Borchardt, Calum Carmichael, Federico Dal Bo, Lutz Doering, Oliver Dyma, Paula Fredriksen, Robert G. Hall, Magnar Kartveit, Anne Kreps, David Lambert, Michael Legaspi, Jason A. Myers, Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Patrick Pouchelle, Jeremy Punt, Michael L. Satlow, Joachim Schaper, William Schniedewind, Elisa Uusimäki, Jacqueline Vayntrub, Jonathan Vroom, James W. Watts, Benjamin G. Wright III, and Jason M. Zurawski.

Author : Christoph F. E. Holzhey,Arnd Wedemeyer
Publisher : ICI Berlin Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783965580367

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Errans by Christoph F. E. Holzhey,Arnd Wedemeyer Pdf

Today’s critical discourses and theorizing vanguards agree on the importance of getting lost, of failure, of erring — as do life coaches and business gurus. The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts, but also in business, warfare, and politics. Yet often the laudible failures are only those that are redeemed by subsequent successes. What could it mean to think errancy beyond such restrictions? And what would a radical critique of productivity, success, and fixed determination look like that doesn’t collapse into the infamous ‘I would prefer not to’? This volume looks for an answer in the complicated word field branching and stretching from the Latin errāre. Its contributions explore the implications of embracing error, randomness, failure, non-teleological temporalities across different disciplines, discourses, and practices, with critical attention to the ambivalences such an impossible embrace generates.

Author : Victoria Nesfield,Philip Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438475455

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The Struggle for Understanding by Victoria Nesfield,Philip Smith Pdf

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable not only that Wiesel survived and found a way to write about his experiences, but that he did so with elegance and profundity. His novels grapple with questions of tradition, memory, trauma, madness, atrocity, and faith. The Struggle for Understanding examines Wiesel’s literary, religious, and cultural roots and the indelible impact of the Holocaust on his storytelling. Grouped in sections on Hasidic origins, the role of the Other, theology and tradition, and later works, the chapters cover the entire span of Wiesel’s career. Books analyzed include the novels Dawn, The Forgotten, The Gates of the Forest, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Testament, The Time of the Uprooted, The Sonderberg Case, and Hostage, as well as his memoir, Night. What emerges is a portrait of Wiesel’s work in its full literary richness. “This is a marvelous collection. The essays are written by a new generation of scholars who have probed Elie Wiesel’s work deeply and used the manifest tools of their many disciplines to explore some of the most pressing questions relating to the Holocaust, to memory, and to Wiesel himself. I was deeply impressed.” — Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University

Author : Pamela Barmash
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199392667

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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law by Pamela Barmash Pdf

Major innovations have occurred in the study of biblical law in recent decades. The legal material of the Pentateuch has received new interest with detailed studies of specific biblical passages. The comparison of biblical practice to ancient Near Eastern customs has received a new impetus with the concentration on texts from actual ancient legal transactions. The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law provides a state of the art analysis of the major questions, principles, and texts pertinent to biblical law. The thirty-three chapters, written by an international team of experts, deal with the concepts, significant texts, institutions, and procedures of biblical law; the intersection of law with religion, socio-economic circumstances, and politics; and the reinterpretation of biblical law in the emerging Jewish and Christian communities. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among scholars working in biblical law.

Author : Catherine Bartlett,Joachim Schlör
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004435469

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The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition by Catherine Bartlett,Joachim Schlör Pdf

Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.

Author : Cecini, Ulisse,Vernet i Pons, Eulàlia
Publisher : Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788449072543

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Studies on the Latin Talmud by Cecini, Ulisse,Vernet i Pons, Eulàlia Pdf

Studies on the Latin Talmud gathers the latest findings on the Latin translation of the Babylonian Talmud which was produced in Paris in the 1240s and eventually led to its condemnation by the Catholic Church in 1248. Prominent international scholars guide the reader through the historical circumstances of the translation, its methodology, the manuscript tradition and the intertextual relations with Latin and Hebrew sacred texts and commentaries (Latin and Hebrew Bible, Rashi, Church Fathers, Jewish and Christian commentators), thus giving unprecedented insight into this fundamental chapter of Christian-Jewish relations. Authors of the contributions are: Ulisse Cecini, Federico Dal Bo, Óscar de la Cruz Palma, Alexander Fidora, Ari Geiger, Annabel González, Görge Hasselhoff, Isaac Lampurlanés, Montse Leyra and Eulàlia Vernet.

Author : Antonio Castore,Federico Dal Bo
Publisher : Series Cultural Inquiry
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783965580497

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Untying the Mother Tongue by Antonio Castore,Federico Dal Bo Pdf

Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state. Yet, current celebrations of multilingualism reflect the recent demands of global capitalism, raising other challenges. The contributions from international scholars on literature, philosophy, and culture, analyze and problematize the concept of 'mother tongue', rethinking affective and cognitive attachments to language while deconstructing its metaphysical, capitalist, and colonialist presuppositions.

Author : Zev Eleff,Shaul Seidler-Feller
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9798887193144

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Emet le-Ya‘akov by Zev Eleff,Shaul Seidler-Feller Pdf

Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, who has served the American and international Jewish community with distinction in his roles as a synagogue rabbi, university professor, and public intellectual. These articles, like the honoree, recognize the importance of both history and memory, emphasize the necessity of accuracy in historiography, and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. They are divided into three categories that help frame the discussion around “facing the truths of history”: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. The volume also includes a brief sketch of Schacter’s life and work and a bibliography of his publications.

Author : Dalia Marx
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 3161524969

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Tractates Tamid, Middot and Qinnim by Dalia Marx Pdf

Dalia Marx provides a general introduction and feminist commentary on the last three tractates of the order of Qodashim . Each tractate deals with different aspects of the Second Temple as perceived by the rabbis and each sheds its own light on gender issues. The commentary on Tamid, a tractate dealing with the priestly service in the Temple, discusses the priests as a gender unto themselves and considers women as potential participants in the lay-service of the Temple and perhaps even as part of the sacred service. Middot concerns itself with the design of the Temple, and the commentary explores sacred space from a gendered perspective. Finally, Marx turns to Qinnim, a tractate dealing with bird offerings, typically brought by women. The commentary shows how the tractate employs images of women to develop its discourse. This volume opens a unique window onto the rabbis' perspectives on the Temple and gender related matters.