Chattel or Person?: The Status of Women in the Mishnah

by Judith Romney Wegner

Book Overview

Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in 2nd-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both the property and the peers of men, in some circumstances women were considered to possess no powers, rights, or duties in law, and in others were judged morally, practically, and intellectually fit to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051696
• ISBN13: 9780195051698
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"