Author: Judith Hauptman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429966202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the