Mine and yours are hers
Subtitle: retrieving women's history from rabbinic literature
By: by Tal Ilan.
Series: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums,; 41; Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ;; Bd. 41.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Talmud -- Sources.; Women in rabbinical literature.; Women in Judaism -- Historiography.; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
Description: This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies.

But mainly this is a book about women's history, adopting many assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and approaches them with due suspicion. The Rabbis treated women differently from the way they treated men. This resulted in the former's marginalization and manipulation by the texts. On the other hand, however, it created an ironic situation whereby principles useful for the recovery of historical information on women, are useless when applied to men.

This study describes such principles and demonstrates them with the help of many examples.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-331) and indexes.