Massekhet Gittin Chapters 4-5

Volume III/6/d-e. Text, Translation, and Commentary
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-16-163551-9
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 503 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Reihe: A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud

Tractate Gittin of the Mishnah is located in the Order of Women and discusses divorce proceedings. Chapters 4 and 5 of the Tractate address a specific topic - "the improvement of the world" - and list a number of rules (most of them devoted to women and gender issues) which were enacted so as to improve a certain undesirable condition. The authors of this volume provide a feminist commentary on these gender-relevant mishnaic texts, and on the commentary of the Babylonian Talmud on them. The Babylonian commentary includes an extended literary unit that describes and comments on the conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple. Anat Israeli and Tal Ilan address the gendered issues that arise from this literary unit and raise the question of women's place (and victimhood) in the male economy of war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Israeli, Anat

Ilan, Tal

Yisre?eli, ?Anat

Ilan, T?al

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Ilan, Tal
Born 1956; professor emerita of Jewish studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Israeli, Anat
Born 1957; 1992-2015 Senior Lecturer at Oranim College; 2015-19 Dean of the Faculty of Education.