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Authors: Tamar Ross
ISBN-13: 9781584653905, ISBN-10: 1584653906
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
TAMAR ROSS is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought in the Department of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. She has also been the central instructor of Jewish Thought at Midreshet Lindenbaum (the first women's Yeshiva) since its inception.
A unique examination of the theological implications for Orthodox Judaism of women's changed status in the modern world.
Pt. I | The first stage : acknowledging the problem | 1 |
Ch. 1 | Feminism and the Halakhic tradition | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Sources of discontent and the conservative response | 25 |
Pt. II | The second stage : working within the system | 47 |
Ch. 3 | Exploring Halakhic malleability and its limits | 49 |
Ch. 4 | The meta-Halakhic solutions of modern orthodoxy | 60 |
Ch. 5 | Does positivism work? | 71 |
Pt. III | The third stage : revamping the system | 101 |
Ch. 6 | Sociological and historical revisionism | 103 |
Ch. 7 | Evaluating revisionism | 125 |
Ch. 8 | Halakhic proactivism | 145 |
Pt. IV | Beyond the third stage : expanding the palace of Torah | 163 |
Ch. 9 | Halakhah contextualized : nonfoundationalism and the role of interpretive traditions | 165 |
Ch. 10 | The word of God contextualized : successive hearings and the decree of history | 184 |
Ch. 11 | Some theological remarks for the more philosophically inclined | 213 |
Pt. V | Epilogue | 225 |
Ch. 12 | Visions for the future | 227 |