Recovering the role of women : power and authority in rabbinic Jewish society /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1992.
Description:	132 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	South Florida studies in the history of Judaism ; no. 59 South Florida studies in the history of Judaism ; 59.
Subject:	Women in Judaism Jewish women -- History. Jewish women -- Religious life Jewish women. Jewish women -- Religious life. Women in Judaism. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1385794

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Other authors / contributors:	Haas, Peter J. (Peter Jerome)
ISBN:	155540765X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction / Peter J. Haas
2. Money, Sex and Power: An Examination of the Role of Women as Patrons of the Ancient Synagogues / Matthew S. Collins
3. Not Merely Chattel: Women as Guardians of Holiness in the Mishnah's Society / Lynn T. Stott
4. Between Text and Context: Scripture, Society and the Role of Women in Formative Judaism / Adeline Fehribach
5. On Being A Religious Woman: Women Proselytes in the Greco-Roman World / Sally O. Langford
6. Beyond Heder, Haskalah and Honeybees: Genius and Gender in the Education of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Judeo-German Women / Anne Sheffer
7. The Domestic Role of Jewish Women in the Modern Social Context: The Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902 / Larry D. George.

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