Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fish, Kaeren.

Description

1. 1 online resource (xxv, 205 pages)

Series statement

1. HBI series on Jewish women

Uniform title

1. Bi-fene ʻatsman. English (Online)

Alternative title

1. Bi-fene ʻatsman.

Subject

1. Feminism > Religious aspects > Judaism
2. Women in Judaism
3. Women in rabbinical literature

Contents

1. Back to the breast: an aspect of feminine sexuality in the imagined world of the sages -- 2. Desire and dominion -- 3. "They let the children live": the midwives at a political crossroads -- 4. Judith, wife of R. Hiyya: a story of women's pain -- 5. The voice of doubt: the wife of R. Simeon ben Halafta and the uncanny -- 6. Open to conquest: prostitution, temptations and responses -- 7. Myth in the attic: the call of the deep -- 8. The creation of woman: men are from Babylon; women are from the land of Israel.

Note

1. Translated from the Hebrew.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Raṿeh, ʻInbar.

Title

1. Feminist rereadings of rabbinic literature [electronic resource] / Inbar Reveh ; translated by Kaeren Fish.

Imprint

1. Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014]

Series

1. HBI series on Jewish women

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

Added author

1. Fish, Kaeren.

LCCN

1. 2014014725