Rabbinic tales of destruction : gender, sex, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem / Julia Watts Belser.
2017
BM509.W7 .B45 2017
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Title
Rabbinic tales of destruction : gender, sex, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem / Julia Watts Belser.
ISBN
9780190600495 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
BM509.W7 .B45 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
296.125306
Summary
Analyzing early Jewish accounts of the destruction of the Second Temple, Julia Watts Belser illuminates the brutal body costs of Roman conquest. Drawing on disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought, Belser reveals how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire.
Note
Analyzing early Jewish accounts of the destruction of the Second Temple, Julia Watts Belser illuminates the brutal body costs of Roman conquest. Drawing on disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought, Belser reveals how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 7, 2017).
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Print version: 9780190600471
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