Mine & Yours are Hers. Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature.

Ilan, Tal

ISBN 10: 9004108602 / ISBN 13: 9789004108608

Published by Brill, Leiden, New York & Köln, 1997., 1997

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Oktav. Goldgepr. Org.-Ganzleinen mit bedrucktem Org.-SU, xiii (+i), 346 (+4) S., nahezu neuwertiges Exemplar. [=Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums (AGJU) / Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity; 41 (XLI)]. - Erste Ausgabe. - ISBN 9004108602. - ENGLISH: Octavo. Publisher's gilt full cloth with publisher's d/j, xiii (+i), 346 (+4) pp., a very fine copy. [=Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums (AGJU) / Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity; 41 (XLI)]. - Erste Ausgabe. - ISBN 9004108602. - ENGLISH: Octavo. Publisher's gilt full cloth with publisher's d/j, xiii (+i), 346 (+4) pp., a very fine copy. 1000 g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mine & Yours are Hers. Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature.
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden, New York & Köln, 1997.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004108602
• ISBN 13: 9789004108608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 1000 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • JUDAICA, JUDENTUM - judaica, judaism

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tal Ilan, Ph.D. (1992) in Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lectures at the Hebrew University and has been a visiting Professor at the Universities of Harvard, Yale and the Free University of Berlin. She has published extensively on Jewish women in antiquity, including Jewish Women in Greco Roman Palestine (Mohr, 1995).