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Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature / Max K. Strassfeld.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520382060
  • 0520382064
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trans TalmudDDC classification:
  • 296.3086/7 23
LOC classification:
  • BM729.T65 S77 2022
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Transing Late Antiquity : the politics of the study of eunuchs and androgynes -- The gendering of law : the androgyne and the hybrid animal in Bikkurim -- Sex with androgynes -- Transing the eunuch : kosher and damaged masculinity -- Eunuch temporality : the saris and the aylonit -- Conclusion: Rereading the rabbis (again).
Summary: "Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law"-- Provided by publisher.
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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)3160472

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index.

Transing Late Antiquity : the politics of the study of eunuchs and androgynes -- The gendering of law : the androgyne and the hybrid animal in Bikkurim -- Sex with androgynes -- Transing the eunuch : kosher and damaged masculinity -- Eunuch temporality : the saris and the aylonit -- Conclusion: Rereading the rabbis (again).

"Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2022).

In English.