Category Archives: Gender

Black Like a Raven: Menstruation and Aesthetics

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

With my book, The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in its Sasanian Context (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press) in production and due out later this year, I have finally been able to return to research I first conducted for my … Continue reading →

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A Monumental Loss for Jewish Learning- Guest Post by Moriah Be’er Chriki, Yedidah Koren and Davida Klein Velleman

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

This post, crossposted from The Times of Israel, is the first in a series on the state of advanced Talmud study for women.  In a world just opening its eyes to the possibility of women’s advanced and committed Torah study, … Continue reading →

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RSK’s New Book and Paradigms of Gender Research

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

In a recent review at the Review of Biblical Literature, Gail Streete looks at Ross Shepard Kraemer‘s newest book, Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.  It is a fascinating take on how one of the foremost gender theorists … Continue reading →

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