“The irony of…should be a warning against assuming any kind of simple binary division between resistance and imitation of colonial cultures”

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The irony of finding a deeply Hellenized concept of gender at the very heart of a book which strives to present the rabbis as an alternative to (Roman) Hellenistic gender economies should be a warning against assuming any kind of simple binary division between resistance and imitation of colonial cultures.

Ishay Rosen-Zvi, “The Rise and Fall of Rabbinic Masculinity”, Jewish Studies Internet Journal 12 (2013), 18.

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