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The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition (Paperback)
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Most ancient societies were patriarchal in outlook, but not all
patriarchies are equally condescending toward women. Impelled by
the gnawing question of whether the inferiority of women is
integral to the Torah's vision, Sassoon sets out to determine where
the Bible, the Talmud and related literature, especially the Dead
Sea Scrolls, sit on this continuum of patriarchal condescension. Of
course, there are multiple voices in both Biblical and Talmudic
literature, but more surprising is how divergent these voices are.
Some points of view seem intent on the disenfranchisement and
domestication of women, whereas others prove to be not far short of
egalitarian. Opinions that downplay the applicability of the
biblical commandments to women and that strongly deprecate Torah
study by women emerge from this study as arguably no more than the
views of an especially vocal minority.
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