TRADITION AND EQUALITY IN JEWISH MARRIAGE by Melanie Landau ( 9781441138064 )

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TRADITION AND EQUALITY IN JEWISH MARRIAGE
BEYOND THE SANCTIFICATION OF SUBORDINATION

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1441138064

ISBN 13:

9781441138064

Publisher:

CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Pub. date:

29 March, 2012

Series:

Continuum Studies in Jewish Thought

Pages:

224

Description:

Provides an exploration of Jewish marriage and its alternatives in traditional Jewish texts from a feminist perspective. This book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study.

Synopsis:

Often when people have become alienated from their religious backgrounds, they access their traditions through lifecycle events such as marriage. At times, modern values such as gender equality may be at odds with some of the traditions; many of which have always been in a state of flux in relationship to changing social, economic and political realities. Traditional Jewish marriage is based on the man acquiring the woman, which has symbolic and actual ramifications. Grounded in the traditional texts yet accessible, this book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study, the highest cultural practice and women's exemption from positive commandments. Melanie Landau offers two alternative models of partnership that partially or fully bypass the non-reciprocity of traditional Jewish marriage and that have their basis in the ancient rabbinic texts.

Illustrations:

black & white illustrations

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Imprint:

Continuum Publishing Corporation

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Returnable

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