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Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature » (New Edition)

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Authors: Judith R. Baskin
ISBN-13: 9781584651789, ISBN-10: 1584651784
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Judith R. Baskin

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).

Book Synopsis

A unique look at how non-legal rabbinic writings imagine women and their lives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Introduction1
1Distinguishing Differences: The Otherness of Women in Rabbinic Judaism13
2Constructing Eve: Midrashic Revisions of Human Creation44
3Eve's Curses: Female Disadvantages and Their Justifications65
4Fruitful Vines and Silent Partners: Women as Wives in Rabbinic Literature88
5"Why Were the Matriarchs Barren?": Resolving the Anomaly of Female Infertility119
6"A Separate People": Rabbinic Delineations of the Worlds of Women141
Afterword161
Notes165
Bibliography203
Subject Index213
Index of Primary Sources223

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