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The Return of the Absent Father - A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover)
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The Return of the Absent Father - A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover)
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of
seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in
which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to
the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have
emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the
key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here
reveal an additional layer of meaning to the father figure's role
within the family structure. By shifting the spotlight from the
couple to the drama of the father's relationship with his sons and
daughters, they present a more complex tension between mundane
domesticity and the sphere of spiritual learning represented by the
study house. This coauthored book presents a dialogic encounter
between Weiss, a scholar of rabbinic literature, and Stav, a
scholar of modern Hebrew literary studies. Working together, they
have produced a book resonant in its melding of the scholarly norms
of rabbinics with a literary interpretation based in feminist and
psychoanalytic theory.
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