Law, Hierarchy, and Gender: Reflections on the Exemption of Women from Time-Bound Commandments
Why do the tannaim exempt women from time-bound commandments (m. Qiddushin 1:7)? In this paper it is argued that the unequal levels of obligation for men and women in rabbinic Judaism creates a hierarchy of mitzvot between them that mimics and virtually replaces the earlier biblical hierarchy of mit...
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Universität Bern, Institut für Judaistik
[2020]
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Judaica: neue digitale Folge
Year: 2020, Volume: 1, Pages: 1-37 |
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