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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959264403321

Autore

Wegner Judith Romney

Titolo

Chattel or person? : the status of women in the Mishnah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773854-0

9786610760213

1-280-76021-4

0-19-802190-9

0-19-535986-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

296.1/23/0088042

Soggetti

Women in rabbinical literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Chattel or Person?; 2. The Minor Daughter; 3. The Wife; 4. The Levirate Widow; 5. The Autonomous Woman; 6. Woman and the Public Domain; 7. The Anomaly of Woman in the Mishnah; 8. The Mishnaic Woman and Feminist Theory; Appendixes; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Judith Wegner scrutinizes the Mishnah, the book of legal rules produced by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, and determines its effect upon the image and status of women in the Jewish orthodox tradition.