Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-212) and indexes.
Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren? : resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people : Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women.
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A unique look at how non-legal rabbinic writings imagine women and their lives.
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Midrash--History and criticism.
Women in rabbinical literature. Aggada--Commentaries. Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism. Women in the Bible. Femmes dans la littérature rabbinique. Aggadah--Commentaires. Midrash--Histoire et critique. Féminisme--Aspect religieux--Judaïsme. Femmes dans la Bible. RELIGION--Judaism--General. Aggada. Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism. Midrash. Women in rabbinical literature. Women in the Bible. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Electronic books. Commentaries. Criticism, interpretation, etc.