How the Rabbis Liberated Women (Studies in the History of Judaism)

by Jacob Neusner

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Argues that the rabbis of late antiquity, in the normative law set forth in the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli, liberated Israelite women by according them what Scripture had denied: the standing and powers of sentient beings; a role in critical transactions of their existence that, if not entirel
  • ISBN10 0788505165
  • ISBN13 9780788505164
  • Publish Date 1 March 1999
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Scholars Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 176
  • Language English