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Rabbinic tales of destruction : sex, gender, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem / Julia Watts Belser.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 245 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780190600495
  • 0190600497
  • 9780190600488
  • 0190600489
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rabbinic tales of destruction.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/25306 23
LOC classification:
  • BM509.W7 B45 2018
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The sexual politics of destruction: gender, sex, and sin in Bavli Gittin -- Sex in the shadow of Rome: sexual violence and theological lament in Bavli Gittin's disaster tales -- Conquered bodies in the Roman bedroom: the gender politics of beauty in Bavli Gittin's destruction tales -- Disabiity studies and the destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the subversive potency of dissident flesh -- Materiality and memory: body, blood, and land in Rabbinic tales of death and dismemberment -- Romans before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic fantasies of recompense, revenge, and the transformation of flesh -- Opulence and oblivion: class, status, and self-critique in Bavli Gittin's tales of feasting and fasting -- Postlude-theology in the flames: empathy, cataclysm, and God's responsivity to suffering in Bavli Gittin -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of ancient sources.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1625670

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2017).

Introduction -- The sexual politics of destruction: gender, sex, and sin in Bavli Gittin -- Sex in the shadow of Rome: sexual violence and theological lament in Bavli Gittin's disaster tales -- Conquered bodies in the Roman bedroom: the gender politics of beauty in Bavli Gittin's destruction tales -- Disabiity studies and the destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the subversive potency of dissident flesh -- Materiality and memory: body, blood, and land in Rabbinic tales of death and dismemberment -- Romans before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic fantasies of recompense, revenge, and the transformation of flesh -- Opulence and oblivion: class, status, and self-critique in Bavli Gittin's tales of feasting and fasting -- Postlude-theology in the flames: empathy, cataclysm, and God's responsivity to suffering in Bavli Gittin -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of ancient sources.