| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 245 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The sexual politics of destruction: gender, sex, and sin in Bavli Gittin -- Sex in the shadow of Rome: sexual violence and theological lament in Bavli Gittin's disaster tales -- Conquered bodies in the Roman bedroom: the gender politics of beauty in Bavli Gittin's destruction tales -- Disabiity studies and the destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the subversive potency of dissident flesh -- Materiality and memory: body, blood, and land in Rabbinic tales of death and dismemberment -- Romans before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic fantasies of recompense, revenge, and the transformation of flesh -- Opulence and oblivion: class, status, and self-critique in Bavli Gittin's tales of feasting and fasting -- Postlude-theology in the flames: empathy, cataclysm, and God's responsivity to suffering in Bavli Gittin -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of ancient sources |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2017) |
| Subject |
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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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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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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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017030893 |
| ISBN |
9780190600495 |
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0190600497 |
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9780190600488 |
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0190600489 |
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