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- catalog abstract ""This is the first book-length attempt to focus on female biblical figures in the ancient rabbinic writings of midrash and Talmud. Primary rabbinic sources employed by the author bring new life and insight into the stories of Eve, Deborah, Hannah, Serah bat Asher, and others. As women and men today attempt to reevaluate past historical models, it serves us well to understand the values and inner workings of rabbinic thinking. The examination of what the sources actually say, and not what others would like them to have said, enable reinterpretation of women's role to proceed on an honest and authentic basis. Biblical women, reclaimed with contemporary midrash, can become paradigms for our modern lives."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b6335957.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""She shall be called woman" -- Aggadic attitudes toward women -- Eve's estate: temptation, modesty, and the valorization of matrimony -- Serah bat Asher: the transformative power of aggadic invention -- The regime of modesty: Ruth and the rabbinic construction of the feminine ideal -- "Remember thy handmaid": on Hannah and prayer -- "The King's daughter is all glorious within": the estate of daughterhood -- Hope for the harlot: the estate of the marginalized woman -- "Deborah, say your song": female prophecy in Talmudic tradition -- Complexity and contradiciton in the rabbinic construction of women.".
- catalog description ""This is the first book-length attempt to focus on female biblical figures in the ancient rabbinic writings of midrash and Talmud. Primary rabbinic sources employed by the author bring new life and insight into the stories of Eve, Deborah, Hannah, Serah bat Asher, and others. As women and men today attempt to reevaluate past historical models, it serves us well to understand the values and inner workings of rabbinic thinking. The examination of what the sources actually say, and not what others would like them to have said, enable reinterpretation of women's role to proceed on an honest and authentic basis. Biblical women, reclaimed with contemporary midrash, can become paradigms for our modern lives."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 214 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0664255426 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Gender and the biblical tradition".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Louisville, KY : Westminster/John Knox Press,".
- catalog subject "222/.1083053 20".
- catalog subject "BM509.W7 B76 1994".
- catalog subject "Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.".
- catalog subject "Rabbinical literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women in Judaism.".
- catalog subject "Women in rabbinical literature.".
- catalog subject "Women in the Bible.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""She shall be called woman" -- Aggadic attitudes toward women -- Eve's estate: temptation, modesty, and the valorization of matrimony -- Serah bat Asher: the transformative power of aggadic invention -- The regime of modesty: Ruth and the rabbinic construction of the feminine ideal -- "Remember thy handmaid": on Hannah and prayer -- "The King's daughter is all glorious within": the estate of daughterhood -- Hope for the harlot: the estate of the marginalized woman -- "Deborah, say your song": female prophecy in Talmudic tradition -- Complexity and contradiciton in the rabbinic construction of women.".
- catalog title "From Eve to Esther : rabbinic reconstructions of biblical women / Leila Leah Bronner.".
- catalog type "text".