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Talmud
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TL;DR: For three different bankruptcy problems, the 2000-year old Babylonian Talmud prescribes solutions that equal precisely the nucleoli of the corresponding coalitional games, and a rationale for these solutions that is independent of game theory is given in this article.
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TL;DR: Yentl, the 19th-century heroine of Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, had to disguise herself as a man to attend school and study the Talmud.
Abstract: Yentl, the 19th-century heroine of Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story,1 had to disguise herself as a man to attend school and study the Talmud. Being "just like a man" has historically been a pric...
491 citations
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: Boyarin argues that the Diaspora produced valuable alternatives to the dominant cultures' overriding gender norms as discussed by the authors, and finds the origins of the rabbinic model of masculinity in the Talmud, and though unrelentingly critical of rabbinic society's oppressive aspects, he shows how it could provide greater happiness for women than the passive gentility required by bourgeois European standards.
Abstract: In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female reaches back through Freud to Roman times, but as Boyarin makes clear, such gender roles are not universal. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, he reveals early rabbis - studious, family-oriented - as exemplars of manhood and the prime objects of female desire in traditional Jewish society. Challenging those who view the 'feminized Jew' as a pathological product of the Diaspora or a figment of anti-Semitic imagination, Boyarin argues that the Diaspora produced valuable alternatives to the dominant cultures' overriding gender norms. He finds the origins of the rabbinic model of masculinity in the Talmud, and though unrelentingly critical of rabbinic society's oppressive aspects, he shows how it could provide greater happiness for women than the passive gentility required by bourgeois European standards. Boyarin also analyzes the self-transformation of three iconic Viennese modern Jews: Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism; and Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.), the first psychoanalytic patient and founder of Jewish feminism in Germany. Pappenheim is Boyarin's hero: it is she who provides him with a model for a militant feminist, anti-homophobic transformation of Orthodox Jewish society today. Like his groundbreaking "Carnal Israel", this book is talmudic scholarship in a whole new light, with a vitality that will command attention from readers in feminist studies, history of sexuality, Jewish culture, and the history of psychoanalysis.
435 citations
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01 Jun 1956
TL;DR: Ginzberg's "The Legends of the Jews" as mentioned in this paper is a collection of the many elaborations and embellishments of biblical stories that flourished in the centuries following the Bible's own creation.
Abstract: The first books of the Bible describe powerfully but briefly the creation, the first generations of humanity, and the early history of the Jews. In addition to their power to inspire thought and worship, they inspired imagination. Much of the richness of Jewish belief and wisdom comes from the many legends that answered questions raised by the silences of the Bible. From the second to the 14th centuries, the Talmud, Midrash, and their targums incorporated apocryphal views of biblical persons and events to help explain scripture. Other legends found their way into the Kabbalah, into biblical commentaries, and into Christian literature. Now available in paperback, Louis Ginzberg's landma "The legends of the Jews" assembles the many elaborations and embellishments of biblical stories that flourished in the centuries following the Bible's own creation. From a portrait of Adam and Eve as innocent cannibals to tales of Moses ascending the throne of Ethiopia and visiting both hell and paradise, these legends offer strange, delightful and occasionally bizarre variations of familiar biblical stories. Other tales describe Eden and the building of the Tower explain how the first Sabbath was celebrated, and chronicle the punishment of the rebel angels. Ginzberg devotes most of his life to gathering these Jewish legends from their original sources - written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, and Old Slavic - and reproducing them completely, accurately, and vividly. He presents these legends following the traditional bi and reconciling the sometimes contradictory versions of the same stories found in different sources. In addition to four volumes of the legends themselves, "The the Jews" includes two indispensable volumes of notes that provides the sources for every legend and test to the immense depth and range of Ginzberg's research, as well as a comprehensive index to the people, places, and motifs found in the legends and their sources.
418 citations
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01 Jan 1967
TL;DR: The two-volume dictionary translating Hebrew and Aramaic terms into English was published in 1943 by Title Publishing, New York, and is here reproduced in a single volume as discussed by the authors, covering a period of about a thousand years.
Abstract: The two-volume dictionary translating Hebrew and Aramaic terms into English was published in 1943 by Title Publishing, New York, and is here reproduced in a single volume. The literature it embraces covers a period of about a thousand years, with Hebrew and Aramaic elements in about equal proportions. The older Hebrew elements, the Mishaic, go back
314 citations