Beschreibung
Tanja Hidde and Tal Ilan offer a feminist commentary on the Massekhet Shevuot of the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud by focusing on women and gender in the texts. The tractate deals with oaths, mostly in a legal, court context. In presenting and interpreting the texts in Mishnah Shevuot , Tanja Hidde is concerned first and foremost with the discussion of women's participation in court cases that require oath-swearing, as well as women's exclusion from serving as witnesses. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, Tal Ilan shows that, in their commentary on Mishnah Shevuot , the Babylonian rabbis continually use chapter 5 of the Book of Numbers, because it includes a wife suspected of adultery, who swears an oath. Tal Ilan illustrates that the Babylonian rabbis use the wife's oath-swearing as a basis for commenting on other actions of both men and women.
Autorenporträt
Tanja Hidde (Von (Autor)) Worked for the Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud Project. Tal Ilan (Von (Autor)) Born 1956; professor emerita of Jewish studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Jana Trispel
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