This book investigates the mappings of ideas about sexual and
ethnic difference in Galilee during the centuries following the
last Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire-- centuries that saw
major socioeconomic changes in the region, as well as the
development of that small community of Jewish authors/authorities
known as the rabbis.
It examines aspects of Jewish identity as these were constructed
both in the earliest rabbinic texts and " on the ground, " through
practices that created (or contested) topographies of self vs.
other, male vs. female, and insider vs. outsider. Three
sociospatial sites, which the author explores through texts and
archaeology, ground this study: house, marketplace, and
courtyard/alleyway.
The book questions long-standing historical narratives that have
cast ancient Jewish women as " private, " housebound creatures and
Jewish men as " public, " social, mobile agents. Offering useful
strategies for working with, and combining, literary and
nonliterary material remains, it fleshes out a richer narrative of
Jewish antiquity.
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