Jewish Marriage in Antiquity
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780691002552
Subjects: History of religion; Judaism; Marriage; BCE to c 500 CE; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Ancient World; Judaism - History; Judaism - Rituals & Practice; Archaeology and Ancient History; Jewish Studies; Religion / Judaism / Beliefs, Practices, Rituals; History; Marriage customs and rites, Je; Marriage customs and rites, Jewish; To 1500
First sentence: First, by closely reading and placing this sugya within two larger contexts, that of contemporary non-Jewish views of marriage and that of themes found elsewhere in the Babylonian Talmud, I will try to recover the function of this sugya, that is, how it might have been read and used as an argument for marriage.