Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem

ISBN-13: 9780190600471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str.

Julia Watts Belser

Opis

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.

Recenzje

This important book by Julia Watts Belser demands that we look again at rabbinic responses to the Roman conquest of Jerusalem ... [S]he pays particular attention to theoretical studies, including methodologies of related disciplines such as feminist, disability, ecological materialist, and post-colonial studies. In all, Belser brings insights from the crises and successes of our own era in order to reveal new interpretations of these ancient texts.

O autorze

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