Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Miriam B. Peskowitz re-examines this critical event and--presenting a feminist interpretation in which gender takes center stage--challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development.
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Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Miriam B. Peskowitz re-examines this critical event and--presenting a feminist interpretation in which gender takes center stage--challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development.
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Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. Light shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Stiff illus. wraps. Highlighting to about a dozen pages through interior, otherwise essentially as issued. 1st ptg. Ideal study copy.
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Very good. Trade paperback (US). 263 p. Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society., v. 9. Audience: Professional and scholarly.
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New. This book challenges the traditional assumptions regarding the historical development of Judaism; the author researches ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers in order to reexamine the critical moment when rabbinic Judaism emerged as the dominant form of the religion; she shows how notions of female and male were developed by the rabbis of Roman Palestine, and why these distinctions were so important in the development of this religious tradition; while spinners and weavers performed ordinary tasks, their craft was symbolic of larger gender and sexual issues (red & brown pictorial cover with red & white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in perfect condition; available for immediate shipment)
