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A Feminist Commentary
on the Babylonian Talmud
Herausgegeben von Tal Ilan
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A Feminist Commentary on the
Babylonian Talmud
Herausgegeben von Tal Ilan
Der Babylonische Talmud gehört neben der Hebräischen
Bibel zur kanonischen Literatur des Judentums. Viele Juden
leben nach wie vor nach seinen Regeln und selbst jene,
die dies nicht tun, erkennen den großen Einﬂuss an, den
beide Texte seit Jahrhunderten auf das jüdische Leben
und die jüdische Geschichte haben. Ein feministischer
Kommentar zu diesen Schriften soll die ubiquitären und
tiefsitzenden maskulinen Vorstellungen, durch die Frauen in
der talmudischen Literatur repräsentiert werden, aufdecken
und verdeutlichen, wie diese die Stellung von Frauen in
der jüdischen Gesellschaft und Religion über Jahrhunderte
geformt haben und immer noch formen. Der Babylonische
Talmud ist eine umfangreiche Textsammlung, bestehend aus
40 Traktaten, die teilweise mehrere hundert Seiten umfassen.
In der Reihe soll zu jedem der Traktate ein Kommentarband
erscheinen. Zudem werden auch diejenigen Traktate der
Mischna kommentiert, zu denen keine babylonische Exegese
existiert. In jedem Band wird je ein Wissenschaftler bzw.
eine Wissenschaftlerin der rabbinischen Literatur alle
Passagen je eines Traktates aufgreifen, die er oder sie als
relevant für einen feministischen Kommentar betrachtet.
Die Bände enthalten eine allgemeine Einleitung zum
jeweiligen Traktat, die das den Traktat bestimmende,
oder ihm unterliegende Konzept von Gender erläutert.
Der exegetische Zugang zum Text wird je nach den
Präferenzen der Kommentatoren und Kommentatorinnen
unterschiedlich sein, so dass je andere theologische,
philosophische, philologische, literarische oder historische
Herangehensweisen und Analysen in den einzelnen Bänden
im Vordergrund stehen werden. Die Kommentarreihe ist ein
internationales Projekt. Die einzelnen Traktate werden von
Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern bearbeitet, die
aus unterschiedlichen Ländern und Instituten kommen. Jeder
Kommentar wird in einem eigenen Band veröﬀentlicht.
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Ilan, Tal
Massekhet Ta'anit
Text, Translation, and Commentary
The purpose of this feminist commentary on Seder Moed
is to outline gender diﬀerences as they are reﬂected in
the mishnaic and talmudic texts. In this introductory
volume, various world-renown scholars discuss women's
participation in Jewish festivals on a general and theoretic
level.
the commentary explores sacred space from a gendered
perspective. Finally, Marx turns to Qinnim , a tractate
dealing with bird oﬀerings, typically brought by women.
The commentary shows how the tractate employs images of
women to develop its discourse. This volume opens a unique
window onto the rabbis' perspectives on the Temple and
gender related matters.
2013. XII, 258 S. ISBN 978-3-16-152496-7 Ln 89,– €
Band V/7
Dal Bo, Federico
Massekhet Keritot
Tal Ilan discusses tractate Ta'anit of the Babylonian Talmud,
which deals with ritual fasting, usually in the case of
rain failure. In this commentary, the author presents and
discusses texts from the tractate which are relevant to
women and gender. These include legal proclamations on
the participation of women in public fasts, stories on pious
men, whose proper conduct toward women make them
ideal intermediaries for bringing rain and discussions of
gendered rabbinic terms such as Bat Qol, usually translated
as 'heavenly voice' but which literally translated means 'a
daughter's voice'. The overall impression of this tractate is
that it emphasizes the way the relationship between rainfall
and the dry ground was imagined by the rabbis in a gendered
metaphor of sexual relations in which rain is male and
the land is female. This theme repeats itself in the tractate
throughout.
2008. X , 340 S. ISBN 978-3-16-149524-3 Ln 99,– €
Band V/9
Marx, Dalia
Tractates Tamid, Middot and Qinnim
A Feminist Commentary
The feminist commentary of Tamid , Middot and Qinnim
, the three last tractates of the order of Qodashim , shows
how the Rabbis employ images of women to develop their
discourse. Dalia Marx opens a unique window into the
rabbis' perspectives on the Temple and gender related
matters.
Dalia Marx provides a general introduction and feminist
commentary on the last three tractates of the order of
Qodashim . Each tractate deals with diﬀerent aspects of the
Second Temple as perceived by the rabbis and each sheds
its own light on gender issues. The commentary on Tamid
, a tractate dealing with the priestly service in the Temple,
discusses the priests as a "gender unto themselves" and
considers women as potential participants in the lay-service
of the Temple and perhaps even as part of the sacred service.
Middot concerns itself with the design of the Temple, and
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Federico Dal Bo provides a commentary on the tractate
Keritot from the Babylonian Talmud especially dealing with
sexual transgressions and other issues relevant to women.
His historical, philological and philosophical investigation is
based on most recent scholarship; each relevant passage is
accurately discussed with reference to other ancient Jewish
and non-Jewish sources.
The tractate Keritot of the Babylonian Talmud belongs to
the Order of Qodashim in the Mishnah. It discusses the
Temple and its rituals, especially sacriﬁces, but deals mostly
with laws of incest, sexual transgressions, childbirth, and
miscarriages. In this commentary, Federico Dal Bo provides
a historical, philological and philosophical investigation
on these gender issues. He discusses almost the entire
tractate, referring to many other sources, Jewish (the Dead
Sea Scrolls, the Sifra, and other rabbinic texts) as well as
non-Jewish (Akkadian, Hittite, and Ugaritic). The author
also provides accurate philological observations both
on the Mishnah and the Gemara. Finally, he addresses
gender issues by combining a reductionistic approach
to Talmudic study (the so called "Brisker method")
with philosophical deconstruction. Dal Bo shows that in
nearly the entire tractate Keritot the rabbis discuss human
sexuality in a tendentious and restrictive way, claiming
that heterosexuality is the only proper sexual contact and
progressively stigmatizing any other kind of sexual behavior.
2013. IX, 487 S. ISBN 978-3-16-152661-9 Ln 129,– €
Band II/7
Or, Tamara
Massekhet Betsah
Text, Translation, and Commentary
Tamara Or presents a feminist commentary on Tractate
Betsah, which deals which the laws speciﬁc to festivals.
She reveals surprising insights into the role of women in
the development of halakhah and thus shows women's
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oppression as well as their actual power and inﬂuence even
on halakhic decisions.
This book is a feminist commentary on Tractate Betsah,
which deals with the laws speciﬁc to festivals. Tamara Or
reveals surprising insights into the role of women in the
development of halakhah. Thus, the commentary shows
women's oppression as well as their actual power and
inﬂuence even on halakhic decisions. The power women
possess in this tractate can be explained as emanating
from the fact that most of it is based on labors usually
performed by women. In nearly all the cases where the
rabbis discuss the sphere of action of women, the latter's
behavior was considered halakhically correct or at least
not in need of change. The power and inﬂuence gained by
women through their various activities and endeavors were
passed over in silence and thus hidden from the view of their
descendants. The following commentary will strive to put
these women back into Jewish history and into the history of
the development of halakhah.
2010. X , 191 S. ISBN 978-3-16-150689-5 Ln 79,– €
Band II/6
Valler, Shulamit
Massekhet Sukkah
Text, Translation, and Commentary
Shulamit Valler's commentary to Tractate Sukkah includes
an intensive study of all the sources which are connected
to women and gender in this Tractate, thus leading to
interesting ﬁndings regarding reality, conceptions and
lifestyle.
Tractate Sukkah from the Babylonian Talmud presents
a broad spectrum of rabbinical sources from Erez Israel
and Babylon that explicitly examine issues relating to
women. Some of these sources were created by sages who
lived in Erez Israel in the time of the second temple and
after its destruction and were called "Tannaim", and the
others were created by sages who lived in Erez Israel and in
Babylon from the third until the seventh century and were
called "Amoraim". All the sources can be divided into two
categories: topics directly connected to women and Sukkot,
and matters indirectly associated with women that were
incorporated into the sugiot (Talmudic fragments).
Shulamit Valler's commentary to Tractate Sukkah includes
an intensive study of all the sources which are connected
to women and gender in this Tractate, thus leading to
interesting ﬁndings regarding reality, conceptions and
lifestyle.
2009. X , 224 S. ISBN 978-3-16-150121-0 Ln 79,– €
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