Rabbinic tales of destruction : sex, gender, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem

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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).