Baskin, Judith Reesa, 1950-

Midrashic women : formations of the feminine in rabbinic literature / Judith R. Baskin. - Hannover : Published by University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, [(c)2002.] - 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) - Brandeis series on Jewish women . - Brandeis series on Jewish women. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren? : resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people : Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women.

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A unique look at how non-legal rabbinic writings imagine women and their lives.




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Midrash--History and criticism.


Women in rabbinical literature.
Aggada--Commentaries.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Women in the Bible.
Midrash--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

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