Rabbinic Tales of Destruction

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Rabbinic Tales of Destruction is written by Associate Professor of Jewish Studies Julia Watts Belser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190600497 (ISBN 10) and 9780190600495 (ISBN 13).

Analyzing early Jewish accounts of the destruction of the Second Temple, Julia Watts Belser illuminates the brutal body costs of Roman conquest. Drawing on disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought, Belser reveals how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire