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Article: Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
- Author:
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WHATIS FEMINIST revisionism to make of "Judeo-Christian civilization"? The insurgent feminism of the sixties and seventies grandly repudiated all its works and ways. Today's feminists look for loopholes. Among Jewish scholars, for example, Bernadette Brooten proved a decade ago that women held the title "Head of Synagogue" in some Diaspora communities. The theologian Judith Plaskow points out that goddesses were worshipped by Israelite women for centuries. Letty Cottin Pogrebin cites Biblical chapter and verse to contend that the Jewish commitment to social justice demands equal rights for women and Plaestinians. Ilana Pardes analyzes "counter-texts" with feminist ...
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... ... Elaine Pagels's work on gender and gnosticism (such as Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, 1988), and Daniel Boyarin's Carnal Israel (1993). The bibliography suggests a startling oversight of Susanna Elm's Virgins of God (1994), but ...
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