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Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah

Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah

Kanarek, Jane

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Series: Hbi Jewish Women

Literary CriticismReligion General Judaism

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ISBN10: 1684582997
ISBN13: 9781684582990
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: Dec 8 2025
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
A feminist reading of one of the most troubling tractates of the Talmud.

Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud as a literary unit. By interrogating how, why, and where women are invisible within Bavli Sotah, Jane Kanarek brings to light a ubiquitous female presence throughout the text. Despite the brutality of the sotah ritual--in which the woman accused of adultery is put through a divine ordeal intended to reveal her innocence or her guilt--this book demonstrates that Bavli Sotah is not primarily concerned with describing the sotah ritual or establishing male control over women. Instead, Bavli Sotah becomes a pedagogical text in which the sotah is secondary to moral and sinning men. As the sotah herself fades into the background, the sotah ritual nevertheless overflows its boundaries and weaves its way through a range of other topics within the tractate. In the process, Bavli Sotah teaches its audience who transmits and how one transmits rabbinic culture.

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