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Tradition and equality in Jewish marriage : beyond the sanctification of subordination / Melanie Landau.
Author
Landau, Melanie
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Language
English
Published/Created
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
©2012
Description
vii, 203 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
KBM542 .L36 2013
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Subject(s)
Marriage (Jewish law)
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Marriage
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Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Series
Bloomsbury studies in Jewish thought.
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"Often when people have become alienated from their religious backgrounds, they access their traditions through lifecycle events such as marriage. At times, modern values such as gender equality may be at odds with some of the traditions; many of which have always been in a state of flux in relationship to changing social, economic and political realities. Traditional Jewish marriage is based on the man acquiring the woman, which has symbolic and actual ramifications. Grounded in the traditional texts yet accessible, this book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study, the highest cultural practice and women's exemption from positive commandments. Melanie Landau offers two alternative models of partnership that partially or fully bypass the non-reciprocity of traditional Jewish marriage and that have their basis in the ancient rabbinic texts"--Provided by publisher.
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Originally published: London: Continuum, 2012.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.
Contents
Laying the table
The legal effects of marriage
Rebellious women and husband-owned sexuality
Conditional marriage
Derekh kiddushin (quasi-marriage).
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ISBN
9781472533067 ((paperback))
1472533062 ((paperback))
9781441138064 ((hardcover))
1441138064 ((hardcover))
9781441139337 ((ebook (pdf)))
1441139338 ((ebook (pdf)))
OCLC
858009838
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