Rebuilding the House of Israel Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity 1st Edition by Cynthia Baker ISBN 0804740291 978-0804740296
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ISBN 10: 0804740291
ISBN 13: 978-0804740296
Author: Cynthia M. Baker
This book investigates the mappings of ideas about sexual and ethnic difference in Galilee during the centuries following the last Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire—centuries that saw major socioeconomic changes in the region, as well as the development of that small community of Jewish authors/authorities known as the rabbis. It examines aspects of Jewish identity as these were constructed both in the earliest rabbinic texts and “on the ground,” through practices that created (or contested) topographies of self vs. other, male vs. female, and insider vs. outsider. Three sociospatial sites, which the author explores through texts and archaeology, ground this study: house, marketplace, and courtyard/alleyway. The book questions long-standing historical narratives that have cast ancient Jewish women as “private,” housebound creatures and Jewish men as “public,” social, mobile agents. Offering useful strategies for working with, and combining, literary and nonliterary material remains, it fleshes out a richer narrative of Jewish antiquity.
Table of contents:
1 Space, Material Discourses, and the Art of Cultural Production
2 The Well-Ordered Bayit: Bodies, Houses, and Rabbis in Ancient Galilee
3 Men, Women, and the Shuk: Cultural Currencies on the Open Market
4 Inside Out and Outside In
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