How the Rabbis Liberated Women

Argues that the rabbis of late antiquity, in the normative law set forth in the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli, liberated Israelite women by according them what Scripture had denied: the standing and powers of sentient beings; a role in critical transactions of their existence that, if not entirel

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By Jacob Neusner

Summary

Argues that the rabbis of late antiquity, in the normative law set forth in the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli, liberated Israelite women by according them what Scripture had denied: the standing and powers of sentient beings; a role in critical transactions of their existence that, if not entirel

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• Authors: Jacob Neusner, Jacob (Research Professor of Religion and Theology Neusner
• Publisher: University of South Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780788505164
• ISBN: 978-0-7885-0516-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Judaism; South Florida Studies in the H; Studies in the History of Judaism; South Florida Studies in the H; Studies in the History of Juda
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism