Establishing Gender Categories and Hierarchies: The Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman
This article examines the evolution of rabbinic interpretative discourse on the creation of woman, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, addressing well-known rabbinic writings from the fifth to the tenth centuries. My feminist and genealogical discourse-analytic exploration illustrates the accumulation...
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| description | This article examines the evolution of rabbinic interpretative discourse on the creation of woman, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, addressing well-known rabbinic writings from the fifth to the tenth centuries. My feminist and genealogical discourse-analytic exploration illustrates the accumulation of gender-biased elements and the concomitant strengthening of an obvious, all-encompassing patriarchal ethos along this hermeneutical trajectory. I argue that the diachronic development of the rabbinic discourse on the creation of woman took place in three consecutive discursive stages representing self-dependent characteristics. The tradition corpus was first established in Genesis Rabbah and Leviticus Rabbah, then reinforced in the Babylonian Talmud, and finally it became embroidered with versatile elaborations, as demonstrated in passages from Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Avot de-Rabbi Nathan, Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, and Alphabet of Ben Sira. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66940bb6a2be46ab96099971160d80ff2023-03-29T17:02:20ZengFinnish Oriental SocietyStudia Orientalia Electronica2323-52092022-12-011016282https://doi.org/10.23993/store.109392Establishing Gender Categories and Hierarchies: The Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of WomanKatja von Schöneman0University of HelsinkiThis article examines the evolution of rabbinic interpretative discourse on the creation of woman, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, addressing well-known rabbinic writings from the fifth to the tenth centuries. My feminist and genealogical discourse-analytic exploration illustrates the accumulation of gender-biased elements and the concomitant strengthening of an obvious, all-encompassing patriarchal ethos along this hermeneutical trajectory. I argue that the diachronic development of the rabbinic discourse on the creation of woman took place in three consecutive discursive stages representing self-dependent characteristics. The tradition corpus was first established in Genesis Rabbah and Leviticus Rabbah, then reinforced in the Babylonian Talmud, and finally it became embroidered with versatile elaborations, as demonstrated in passages from Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Avot de-Rabbi Nathan, Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, and Alphabet of Ben Sira.https://journal.fi/store/article/view/109392creation of womanrabbinic literatureevediscourse analysisjewish feminismgenealogy |
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| title | Establishing Gender Categories and Hierarchies: The Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman |
| title_full | Establishing Gender Categories and Hierarchies: The Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman |
| title_fullStr | Establishing Gender Categories and Hierarchies: The Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman |
| title_full_unstemmed | Establishing Gender Categories and Hierarchies: The Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman |
| title_short | Establishing Gender Categories and Hierarchies: The Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman |
| title_sort | establishing gender categories and hierarchies the evolution of rabbinic discourse on the creation of woman |
| topic | creation of woman rabbinic literature eve discourse analysis jewish feminism genealogy |
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