Tanja Hidde and Tal Ilan offer a feminist commentary on the Massekhet Shevu?ot of the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud by focusing on women and gender in the texts. The tractate deals with oaths, mostly in a legal, court context. In presenting and interpreting the texts in Mishnah Shevu?ot, Tanja Hidde is concerned first and foremost with the discussion of women?s participation in court cases that require oath-swearing, as well as women?s exclusion from serving as witnesses. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, Tal Ilan shows that, in their commentary on Mishnah Shevu?ot, the Babylonian rabbis continually use chapter 5 of the Book of Numbers, because it includes a wife suspected of adultery, who swears an oath. Tal Ilan illustrates that the Babylonian rabbis use the wife?s oath-swearing as a basis for commenting on other actions of both men and women.
worked for the Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud Project.
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978-3-16-164525-9 (9783161645259)
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10.1628/978-3-16-164525-9
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