Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

by Judith R. Baskin

While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature. Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584651784
• ISBN13: 9781584651789
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.7"