Introduction to Seder Qodashim
A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud V
edited by Monika Brockhaus, Tanja Hidde and Tal Ilan
The Order of Qodashim in the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud discusses the Temple and its rituals, especially the sacrifices. It is well known that the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, while it stood, was almost exclusively a male institution. The purpose of the feminist commentary on Seder Qodashim is to discover niches in this elaborate system where women were present and active. Differences between male and female participation in the Temple cult – as they are presented in the mishnaic and talmudic texts – are the topic of the essays in this volume. The contributions by highly esteemed scholars of rabbinic literature represent a surprising selection of topics that touch on Temple and gender. This volume sums up two conferences, held in Berlin and Jerusalem, devoted to the Order of Qodashim, initiating the Feminist Commentary Series on this Order.
Tal Ilan : Introduction 1. Women in the Temple Gunter Stemberger : Did Women Actively Participate in the Sacrificial Cult of the Temple of Jerusalem? Some Preliminary Observations - Andreas Lehnardt : The Scent of Women. Incense and Perfume in ySheq 5:2 ( Sheqalim ) - Marjorie Lehman : Reading the Gendered Rhetoric of Yom Kippur ( Yoma ) - Moshe Benovitz : Miriam bat Bilgah in the Temple: Self, Symbol, Substitute or Stereotype? ( Sukkah ) - Ishay Rosen-Zvi : The Sotah in the Temple: A Well-Ordered Choreography ( Sotah ) - Tirzah Meacham : How Pragmatism Trumps Dogmatism: Marginalization and the Masses in the Case of Coming to the Temple ( Niddah ) 2. Women after the Destruction of the Temple Aryeh Cohen : The Gender of Shabbat ( Shabbat ) - Gail Labovitz : The Omitted Adornment: Women and Men Mourning the Destruction ( Mo'ed Qatan ) - Klaus Herrmann : Do Women have Access to the Divine Realm? Temple Ideology in Judaism ( Hagigah ) - Christiane Tzuberi : And the Woman is a High-Priest: From the Temple to the Kitchen, From the Laws of Ritual Im/Purity to the Laws of Kashrut ( Toharot ) - David Levine : Why No Women in the Beit Midrash? 3. Women in the Temple and in Seder Qodashim Dvora Weisberg : Clothes (un)Make the Man: bMenahot 109b ( Menahot ) - Jane Kanarek : All are Obligated: Sacrifice, Sight and Study ( Arakhin ) - Monika Brockhaus : ???? ???? ????? ???: How do the Harlot and the Dog Affect the Sacrifice ( Temurah ) - Federico Dal Bo : Women to Think with: Sexual Transgressions as Heuristics in bKeritot 17a-20a ( Keritot ) - Dalia Marx : Tractate Qinnim : Marginality or Horizons ( Qinnim ) 4. Women in Seder Qodashim Tal Ilan : Males are for God, Females are for Us: Sacred and Kosher Slaughter Rhetorics in Seder Qodashim and Tractate Hullin ( Hullin ) - Moshe Lavee : Birth, Seminal Emission and Conversion: Gender, Self-Control and Identity in bBekhorot ( Bekhorot ) - Reuven Kiperwasser : Body of the Whore, Body of the Story and Metaphor of the Body ( Bekhorot ) - Sarra Lev : Metaphors of Me'ilah: 'Metaphoric' Use of the Word ??? in Tanakh and in Rabbinic Sources ( Me'ila ) Appendix Ze'ev Safrai : The Place of Women in Non-Establishment Religion During the Period of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud
- Edited by Monika Brockhaus
- Edited by Tanja Hidde
- Edited by Tal Ilan
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