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...
| Nebentitel: | Research Article |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2012]
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AJS review
Jahr: 2012, Band: 36, Heft: 2, Seiten: 207-255 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Frauenfeindlichkeit
/ Babylonischer Talmud. Kleine Traktate. Avot de-Rabbi Nathan
/ Eva, Biblische Person
/ Judentum
/ Tradition
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| IxTheo Notationen: | BH Judentum |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Women
B Traditions B Men B Redaction B Misogyny B Sin B Jewish rituals |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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? |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009412000177 |