Name: Beyond Brutality. Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah
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Author: Jane Kanarek
ISBN: 9781684582990

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Beyond Brutality. Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Brandeis University Press

Author

Jane Kanarek

Collection

HBI Series on Jewish Women

Year

2025

Pages

300

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9781684582990

Beyond Brutality. Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah

Jane Kanarek (Author) · Brandeis University Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Beyond Brutality. Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah"

A feminist reading of one of the most troubling tractates of the Talmud. Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud as a literary unit. By interrogating how, why, and where women are invisible within Bavli Sotah, Jane Kanarek brings to light a ubiquitous female presence throughout the text. Despite the brutality of the sotah ritual—in which the woman accused of adultery is put through a divine ordeal intended to reveal her innocence or her guilt—this book demonstrates that Bavli Sotah is not primarily concerned with describing the sotah ritual or establishing male control over women. Instead, Bavli Sotah becomes a pedagogical text in which the sotah is secondary to moral and sinning men. As the sotah herself fades into the background, the sotah ritual nevertheless overflows its boundaries and weaves its way through a range of other topics within the tractate. In the process, Bavli Sotah teaches its audience who transmits and how one transmits rabbinic culture.