Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History Volume 9

by Miriam Peskowitz

Book Overview

Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources--archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin--she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development.

Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Of these, rabbinic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520209672
• ISBN13: 9780520209671
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

review of Spinning Fantasies

This is a tremendous book. It changed my life and the way I view the world. This book should be read by everyone interested in Judaism and gender. For an academic book, the prose is poetic and crystal clear.