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Title: Mine and Yours Are Hers: Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature
Author: Ilan, Tal
Publisher: Brill; Publication Date: 1998
Hardcover; ISBN: 9789004108608
Volumes: 1; Pages: 320
List Price in Cloth: $234.00 Our price: $198.99
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This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. Recent approaches to rabbinic literature have overturned the traditional view of these writings and new literary methods were suggested, mostly denying them all historical value. But rabbinic literature constitutes the main source for the lives of Jews in Palestine and Babylonia during the late Roman period, and thus should not be totally rejected. This study suggests a new post-literary approach, i.e. it discusses the residue of the texts after these have been analyzed and dissected by literary critics.But mainly this is a book about women's history, adopting many assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and approaches them with due suspicion. The Rabbis treated women differently from the way they treated men. This resulted in the former's marginalization and manipulation by the texts. On the other hand, however, it created an ironic situation whereby principles useful for the recovery of historical information on women, are useless when applied to men. This study describes such principles and demonstrates them with the help of many examples.CONTENTSPreface Introduction Pt. 1 Establishing the Correct Text I Censorship II Tannaitic vs. Amoraic Sources; Palestinian vs. Babylonian Traditions Pt. 2 Universal Criteria III Rabbinic Literature and External Sources IV Methods of Historical Deduction from Halakhic Texts Pt. 3 Specific Criteria for Women V Women's History and Female Language in Halakhic Literature VI Extracting Women's History from Aggadah VII What's in a Name? Women's Names as an Attestation to their Historicity Conclusions: The Stories of Rabbi Aqiva's Wife App. 1 The Matrona-and-Rabbi-Yose Corpus App. 2 Corpus of Non-Biblical Named Women in Rabbinic Literature Bibliography Indices
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