E-book
Rabbinic tales of destruction : sex, gender, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem / Julia Watts Belser.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780190600495
- ISBN: 0190600497
- ISBN: 9780190600488
- ISBN: 0190600489
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 245 pages)
- Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- The sexual politics of destruction: gender, sex, and sin in Bavli Gittin -- Sex in the shadow of Rome: sexual violence and theological lament in Bavli Gittin's disaster tales -- Conquered bodies in the Roman bedroom: the gender politics of beauty in Bavli Gittin's destruction tales -- Disabiity studies and the destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the subversive potency of dissident flesh -- Materiality and memory: body, blood, and land in Rabbinic tales of death and dismemberment -- Romans before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic fantasies of recompense, revenge, and the transformation of flesh -- Opulence and oblivion: class, status, and self-critique in Bavli Gittin's tales of feasting and fasting -- Postlude-theology in the flames: empathy, cataclysm, and God's responsivity to suffering in Bavli Gittin -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of ancient sources. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2017). |
