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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132170003321

Autore

Heger Paul <1924->

Titolo

Women in the Bible, Qumran, and early Rabbinic literature : their status and roles / / by Peter Heger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2014

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-27711-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 pages)

Collana

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, , 0169-9962 ; ; Volume 110

Disciplina

296.1082

Soggetti

Women in the Bible

Women in rabbinical literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the related topics of divorce, polygamy, woman’s obligations to fulfill precepts, membership in the community, genealogy and attitudes toward sex, such as rejection of asceticism. Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature begins with an objective interpretation of the biblical narratives of the Creation and the Fall, the intellectual basis of Jewish attitudes toward women, and then analyzes the divergent interpretations of Qumran and the Rabbis, the grounds of their distinct doctrines and halakhot .