First came marriage
Subtitle: the rabbinic appropriation of early Jewish wedding ritual
By: Susan Marks
Series: Judaism in context -- 13; Judaism in context -- v. 13.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781593335854
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Rabbinische Literatur; Marriage in rabbinical literature; History and criticism; Eheschließung; Judentum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch.1 Recognizing betrothals after the fact : At the margins : the capacity to marry; title: Mamzerim : perpetual outsiders through marriage; title: Consent and the problem of fleeting evidence; title: Inchoate marriage and other "striking parallels"; title: Establishing a citizen body; title: Ch.2 Preparing the bride : An inscription from Leontopolis; title: Jephtha's daughter in Liber antiquitatum biblicarum; title: Aseneth; title: Brides in amoraic rabbinic sources : Genesis Rabbah ; Avot de Rabbi Nathan ; Semahot; title: Ch.3 Debating wedding processions, negotiating post-temple Jewish practice : Tannaitic texts as situational; title: Imminent eschaton impacts strategy; title: Jewish apocalypticism as misrecognition; title: Conclusion : the future of rabbis and weddings, a redemptive hegemony; title: Ch.4 Wedding-feast blessings and rabbinic communal mobility; title: New blessings; title: The proximity of wedding feast and wedding chamber; title: Roman sexual imagination and the wedding chamber; title: The guarded wedding chamber; title: Feasting at weddings : the potential for social disorder and social formation; title: The Babylonian Talmud's concern with attending neighboring feasts; title: Parallel concern : the feast strategies of Christian clergy in Antioch and Rome; title: Confrontations concerning marriage in Mesopotamia; title: Excursus : Tosefta Qiddushin; title: Appendix : Selected texts and translations.