Authors: Judith R. Baskin
ISBN-13: 9781584651789, ISBN-10: 1584651784
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: New Edition
JUDITH R. BASKIN is Director of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. She is author of Pharaoh's Counsellors (1983) and editor of Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (Second edition, 1998) and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994).
A unique look at how non-legal rabbinic writings imagine women and their lives.
Acknowledgments | ||
Note on Translations and Abbreviations | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Distinguishing Differences: The Otherness of Women in Rabbinic Judaism | 13 |
2 | Constructing Eve: Midrashic Revisions of Human Creation | 44 |
3 | Eve's Curses: Female Disadvantages and Their Justifications | 65 |
4 | Fruitful Vines and Silent Partners: Women as Wives in Rabbinic Literature | 88 |
5 | "Why Were the Matriarchs Barren?": Resolving the Anomaly of Female Infertility | 119 |
6 | "A Separate People": Rabbinic Delineations of the Worlds of Women | 141 |
Afterword | 161 | |
Notes | 165 | |
Bibliography | 203 | |
Subject Index | 213 | |
Index of Primary Sources | 223 |