Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and HistoryUniversity of California Press, 28 באפר׳ 2023 - 263 עמודים Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources—archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin—she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development. Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Of these, rabbinic Judaism was the most successful, becoming the classical form of the religion. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Peskowitz re-examines this critical moment in Jewish history and presents a feminist interpretation in which gender takes center stage. She shows how notions of female and male were developed by the rabbis of Roman Palestine and why the distinctions were so important in the formation of their religious and legal tradition. Rabbinic attention to women, men, sexuality, and gender took place within the "ordinary tedium of everyday life, in acts that were both familiar and mundane." While spinners and weavers performed what seemed like ordinary tasks, their craft was in fact symbolic of larger gender and sexual issues, which Peskowitz deftly explicates. Her study of ancient spinning and her abundant source material will set new standards in the fields of gender studies, Jewish studies, and cultural studies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources—archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin—she challenges traditional |
תוכן
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Daily Labors | 45 |
Weavers at Their Looms | 73 |
Domesticity | 91 |
Contestations | 105 |
Gossip | 127 |
Burying Spindles with the Dead | 150 |
Notes | 169 |
References and Select Bibliography | 209 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History <span dir=ltr>Miriam B. Peskowitz</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2023 |
Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History <span dir=ltr>Miriam Peskowitz</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 1997 |
Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History <span dir=ltr>Miriam B. Peskowitz</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2023 |
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