Talmud “The Babylonian Talmud attained its (almost) final shape in the eighth century…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 May 2015 The Babylonian Talmud attained its (almost) final shape in the eighth century, i.e. at...
Gender, Talmud “The metaphor of sex as eating clearly serves as a significant means for rabbis to think about and structure their Torah of sexuality and sexual practices—and of gender and gender relations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 March 2015 The metaphor of sex as eating clearly serves as a significant means for rabbis...
Sex, Talmud “To make a woman a wife is to demonstrate the permeability of her body in the act of deflowering (or consummation); thereafter, her body is available for his use. She has no similar claim on his body” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 March 2015 Carole M. Counihan has observed, however, that bodies are not always necessarily equally permeable;...
Talmud “The relationship between rabbinic rhetoric, even rabbinic constructions of sexuality and actual Jewish female life and practice is far from clear” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 March 2015 Rabbinic texts are androcentric. The relationship between rabbinic rhetoric, even rabbinic constructions of sexuality...
Talmud “…metaphors that associate sex with eating, sexual partners with food, and/or sexual desire with hunger/appetite are not unique to rabbinic Judaism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2015 One detail that stands out in this particular attempt to bring the Torah of...
Talmud “…Rashi’s method highlighted key phrases in the talmudic discussion…instead of the paraphrasing commentary style of [previous] scholars” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2015 Unlike the commentaries of R. Hananel, R. Gershom, or the other various commentaries that...
Talmud “Incredibly, since World War II talmudists have scarcely paid attention to the rich Iranian milieu in which the Babylonian Talmud was composed” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 February 2015 Incredibly, since World War II talmudists have scarcely paid attention to the rich Iranian...
Talmud “…both the Babylonian Talmud and Middle Persian literature are preoccupied with the preferred contours of the female body” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2015 …it is noteworthy how, despite the differences in subject matter (Jewish marital law versus...
Talmud “…quite a bit of work remains to be done in terms of explaining the sources of the Talmud’s articulations of carnality and sexuality…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2015 Since the “Talmudo-Iranica” revolution, students of the Babylonian Talmud have proceeded to reexamine basic...
Talmud “…the process of Talmud…can have real world value, and that, as full participants in a riven civil society, we should see it as our obligation to realize that value” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2015 I do want to suggest that the process of Talmud, which I understand in...