Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity

by Cynthia Baker

This book investigates the mappings of ideas about sexual and ethnic difference in Galilee during the centuries following the last Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire--centuries that saw major socioeconomic changes in the region, as well as the development of that small community of Jewish authors/authorities known as the rabbis.

It examines aspects of Jewish identity as these were constructed both in the earliest rabbinic texts and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804740291
• ISBN13: 9780804740296
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 11.4"