Sex rewarded, sex punished
Subtitle: a study of the status 'female slave' in early Jewish law
By: Diane Kriger
Series: Judaism and Jewish life
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934843482
Subjects: Women slaves (Jewish law); Women in the Bible; Women (Jewish law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is a 'female slave' : context and comparison; title: The pilegesh : status or topos?; title: The amah of Exod 21:2-11; title: The shifah neerefet of Lev 19:20-22; title: The 'inheritance' of slavery in rabbinic law : the non-linearity of the matrilineal principle; title: Rabbinic interpretations of Lev 19:20-22; title: Literature in support of law : the problem of Bilhah and Zilpah.