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Title
Trans Talmud
Type
Text
Monograph
Classification
LCC: BM729.T65 S77 2022 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 296.3086/7 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23)
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Transing Late Antiquity : the politics of the study of eunuchs and androgynes
the gendering of law : the androgyne and the hybrid animal in Bikkurim
Sex with androgynes
Transing the eunuch : kosher and damaged masculinity
Eunuch temporality : The saris and the aylonit
Conclusion : rereading the rabbis again
Authorized Access Point
Strassfeld, Max K., 1976- Trans Talmud