Androgynous Judaism: Masculine and Feminine in the Dual Torah

by Jacob Neusner

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2003

Overview

America’s foremost scholar on formative Judaism examines the issue of gender as it appears in the corpus of rabbinic literature and arrives at some provocative conclusions. While the structure of Judaism based on the dual Torah is clearly masculine in orientation, the substructure—the religious system that shapes its values and perception—is androgynous, an individual conjunction of genders. In fact, the higher values, as defined by the relevant writings, prove to be feminine.

Product Details

• Title: Androgynous Judaism: Masculine and Feminine in the Dual Torah
• Author: Jacob Neusner
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2003
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Sex in rabbinical literature; Women in rabbinical literature; Rabbinical literature › History and criticism
• ISBNs: 9781592442997, 1592442994
• Resource ID: LLS:NDRGYNSJDSM
• Resource Type: Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:45:41Z

About Jacob Neusner

Jacob Neusner (1932–2016) was a preeminent scholar of ancient Judaism and one of the most published authors ever, with more than 900 original volumes to his name. He was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the University of Oxford, and Yale University. He was research professor of theology and senior fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. Neusner’s work has been highly influential, if sometimes controversial. He pioneered applying “form criticism” to Rabbinic texts, and aimed at a humanistic and academic reading of ancient Jewish literature.

Neusner’s works include the Jacob Neusner Jewish Studies Bundle (99 vols.).