Bringing Down the Temple House - Engendering Tractate Yoma(English, Paperback, Lehman Marjorie)

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Bringing Down the Temple House - Engendering Tractate Yoma(English, Paperback, Lehman Marjorie) is written by Lehman Marjorie and published by Brandeis University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1684580897 (ISBN 10) and 9781684580897 (ISBN 13).

A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a methodological lens is not new to the study of Talmudic literature or to the study of individual tractates, this book demonstrates that such an intervention with the Babylonian Talmud reveals new perspectives on the rabbis' relationship with the temple and its priesthood. More specifically, through the relationships most commonly associated with home, such as those of husband-wife, father-son, mother-son, and brother-brother, the rabbis destabilize the temple bayit (or temple house). Moving beyond the view that the temple was replaced by the rabbinic home, and that rabbinic rites reappropriate temple practices, a feminist approach highlights the inextricable link between kinship, gender, and the body, calling attention to the ways the rabbis deconstruct the priesthood so as to reconstruct themselves.