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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Cover -- Rabbinic Tales of Destruction -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Sexual Politics of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Sin in Bavli Gittin -- 2. Sex in the Shadow of Rome: Sexual Violence and Theological Lament in Bavli Gittinâ#x80;#x99;s Disaster Tales -- 3. Conquered Bodies in the Roman Bedroom: The Gender Politics of Beauty in Bavli Gittinâ#x80;#x99;s Destruction Tales -- 4. Disability Studies and the Destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the Subversive Potency of Dissident Flesh |
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5. Materiality and Memory:Â Body, Blood, and Land in Rabbinic Tales of Death and Dismemberment6. Romans Before the Rabbisâ#x80;#x99; God:Â Rabbinic Fantasies of Recompense, Revenge, and the Transformation of Flesh -- 7. Opulence and Oblivion:Â Class, Status, and Self-â#x80;#x8B;Critique in Bavli Gittinâ#x80;#x99;s Tales of Feasting and Fasting -- Postludeâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x8B;Theology in the Flames:Â Empathy, Cataclysm, and Godâ#x80;#x99;s Responsivity to Suffering in Bavli Gittin -- Bibliography -- General Index |
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Analyzing early Jewish accounts of the destruction of the Second Temple, Julia Watts Belser illuminates the brutal body costs of Roman conquest. Drawing on disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought, Belser reveals how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire |
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Print version record |
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Women in rabbinical literature.
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Sex in rabbinical literature.
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Sex crimes.
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Sex Offenses
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Sex crimes.
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Sex in rabbinical literature.
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Women in rabbinical literature.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190600488 |
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0190600489 |
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