The status of women in Jewish tradition / / Isaac Sassoon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812087303321
• Autore: Sassoon I. S. D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-22029-7; 1-139-03607-6; 1-283-05208-3; 9786613052087; 1-139-04153-3; 1-139-04230-0; 1-139-04493-1; 1-139-03839-7; 0-511-97662-3; 1-139-04076-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 296.1082
• Soggetti: Women in Judaism; Rabbinical literature - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The sources -- Pro-CD arguments -- Anti-CD arguments -- Indeterminate arguments -- Make-or-break argument -- Which way does the evidence point? -- Gen. 1:27-29 revisited -- Zeman gerama -- Derekh -- The scriptural evidence -- Deuteronomy : a pattern -- The priestly Torah -- Two writers on purity law -- Torah study -- The Qatlanit law -- "Rankings" of Horayot 3:7 -- Venus and Mars -- Covenant -- Gauging purity's weight in p -- Body and soul -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most ancient societies were patriarchal in outlook, but not all patriarchies are equally condescending toward women. Impelled by the gnawing question of whether the inferiority of women is integral to the Torah's vision, Sassoon sets out to determine where the Bible, the Talmud and related literature, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, sit on ; this continuum of patriarchal condescension. Of course, there are multiple voices in both Biblical and Talmudic literature, but more surprising is how divergent these voices are. Some points of view seem intent on the disenfranchisement and domestication of women, whereas others prove to be not far short of egalitarian. Opinions that downplay the applicability of the biblical commandments to women and that strongly deprecate Torah study by women emerge from this study as arguably no more than the views of an especially vocal minority.