Julia Watts Belser

Rabbinic Tales of Destruction

Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing early Jewish accounts of the destruction of the Second Temple, Julia Watts Belser illuminates the brutal body costs of Roman conquest. Drawing on disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought, Belser reveals how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780197536414
• ISBN-10: 0197536417
• Artikelnr.: 60169564

Autorenporträt

Julia Watts Belser is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. She is the author of Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The Sexual Politics of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Sin
in Bavli Gittin
* Chapter 2: Sex in the Shadow of Rome: Sexual Violence and Theological
Lament in Bavli Gittin's Disaster Tales
* Chapter 3: Conquered Bodies in the Roman Bedroom: The Gender Politics
of Beauty in Bavli Gittin's Destruction Tales
* Chapter 4: Disability Studies and the Destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi
Tsadok and the Subversive Potency of Dissident Flesh
* Chapter 5: Materiality and Memory: Body, Blood, and Land in Rabbinic
Tales of Death and Dismemberment
* Chapter 6: Romans Before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic Fantasies of
Recompense, Revenge and the Transformation of Flesh
* Chapter 7: 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