Trans Talmud

Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature

Max K. Strassfeld (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39739-2 (ISBN)

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Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law.

Max K. Strassfeld is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Transing Late Antiquity: The Politics of the Study of Eunuchs and Androgynes
2. The Gendering of Law: The Androgyne and the Hybrid Animal in Bikkurim
3. Sex with Androgynes
4. Transing the Eunuch: Kosher and Damaged Masculinity
5. Eunuch Temporality: The Saris and the Aylonit
Conclusion: Rereading the Rabbis Again

Bibliography
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Erscheinungsdatum	09.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	5 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	0-520-39739-8 / 0520397398
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39739-2 / 9780520397392
Zustand	Neuware