Rabbinic Tales of Destruction

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Author	: Julia Watts Belser
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 281
Release	: 2018
ISBN-10	: 9780190600471
ISBN-13	: 0190600470
Rating	: 4/5 (71 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Rabbinic Tales of Destruction by : Julia Watts Belser

Book excerpt: 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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