The Mishnaic Sotah ritual [electronic resource] : temple, gender and Midrash.
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TextSeries: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism: Publisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2012Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)ISBN: 9004227989 (electronic bk.); 9789004227989 (electronic bk.); 9789004227989 (electronic book)Subject(s): Adultery (Jewish law) | Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism | Women (Jewish law) | RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & PracticeAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Mishnaic Sotah Ritual : Temple, Gender and MidrashDDC classification: 296.4/9 | 296.49 LOC classification: BM506.S73 | R67513 2012Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction: The Enigma of Tractate Sotah; Temple and gender: Sotah as a case study; Micro-cultural criticism; The structure of the study; Part One Textual Studies; Chapter One Warning and Hiding, Sotah 1:2; I. How does he warn her?; "The spirit of jealousy comes upon him": Grounds for warning; "No warning"; II. "If she conversed with any man": grounds for warning vs.grounds for divorce; Jealousy in Sirach: a precedent for the rabbinic critique?; Chapter Two The Threat, Sotah 1:4; Warning (????): sotah and capital crimes; "Opening with arguments to acquit": the Sifre's homily.
II. "Her thigh was first to transgress"--Mishnah Sotah 1:7III. "With the measure that one metes, one is measured" in Tannaitic literature; Chapter Six Historical Reality and Ideology in Mishnah Sotah; I. Evidence of the ritual's historical existence in the Second Temple Period; Eduyot 5:6: The Story of Karkamit; Yoma 3:10: Helena's Gift; Sotah 9:9: The Tradition of the Discontinuation; An early Mishnah?; II. Inspection and Punishment: the Ideological Construction of Mishnah Sotah; Text and Context: A Methodological Interlude.
III . "Drink and do not hold back": oppositions to the Mishnaic ritualRules of evidence; The approach of the school of R. Ishmael; IV. The ritual's discontinuation; Mishnah, Sotah 9:9; Tosefta, Sotah 14:1-2; Sifre 21 (25); Chapter Seven Theatrical Punishments: Ezekiel and the Mishnah; I. Ezekiel 16 and 23: punishing the adulteresses; "Exposure of nakedness" and its meanings; Adultery or harlotry?; Trial and execution; The Search for a historical background; II. Punishing Adulteresses: Between Ezekiel and the Mishnah; The Mishnah's attenuation of the sotah ritual.
The Mishnah and the biblical sotah ritualIII. Interpretation and imitation in the Mishnah; IV. The Roman arena; Chapter Eight Texts and Rituals: The Riddle of Mishnah Sotah; I.A Fantasy of Control--the Mishnah and Rabbinic Discourse of Seduction; II. Textual Rituals; III. One brick on top of another: some conclusions; Afterword: The Temple in the Mishnah; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index; Source Index.
The purpose of warning in the MishnahChapter Three Humiliation, Sotah 1:5-6; I. "Uncover her bosom"; Flogging; Mourning; Capital Punishment; II. "Loosen her hair"; "To deface her"; "Because she has no shame from them"; Chapter Four Drinking and Death, Sotah 3:4-5; I.R. Simeon ben Yohai's approach and immediate death; II. The invention of "suspending merit"; Merit; Suspension; III. Dying of an agonizing illness: discrediting innocence; Part Two Contextualizations; Chapter Five "Measure for Measure" in the Sotah Ritual; I. "With the measure that one metes"--Tosefta Sotah 3:2-5.
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Combining philological, anthropological and cultural tools, this study sheds new light on issues of rabbinic gender economy and sexual morality, and contributes to the nascent scholarship on the formation of the temple in the Mishnah.
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