Misogyny revisited: the Eve traditions in Avot de Rabbi Natan, versions A and B

This interdisciplinary study of gender in Avot de Rabbi Natan, using a theoretical frame from cultural anthropology, is an enterprise of feminist historiography. Focusing on ARNB's singular formulation of aggadic accounts of Eve's sin, it proposes a possible historical trajectory of Jewish...

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Subtitles:Research Article
主要作者: Polzer, Natalie C. 1957- (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: University of Pennsylvania Press [2012]
In: AJS review
Year: 2012, 卷: 36, 发布: 2, Pages: 207-255
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 厌女主义 / Babylonischer Talmud. Kleine Traktate. Avot de-Rabbi Nathan / Eva, 圣经人物 / 犹太教 / 传统
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Women
B Traditions
B Men
B Redaction
B Misogyny
B Sin
B Jewish rituals
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总结:This interdisciplinary study of gender in Avot de Rabbi Natan, using a theoretical frame from cultural anthropology, is an enterprise of feminist historiography. Focusing on ARNB's singular formulation of aggadic accounts of Eve's sin, it proposes a possible historical trajectory of Jewish women's experience and how that experience was perceived, manipulated and/or negotiated by the Jewish men who were the formulators and transmitters of rabbinic tradition. Generally speaking, traditions about women and gender in ARN demonstrate a stance on the natural, religious and social subordination of women to men, which I will designate “patriarchal stewardship.” Yet the Eve traditions, especially those in ARNB, go beyond articulating this androcentric stance on gender differentiation and social hierarchy; they negotiate a cognitive, religious problem: why do women, and women alone, suffer and die in the process of biological reproduction if “be fruitful and multiply” is a divine imperative in Genesis 1:28?
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009412000177