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Living with the Law : Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt by Oded Zinger is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Living with the Law : Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt about?
<p><i>Living with the Law</i> explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000–1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone. Probing the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in a Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the streets of old Cairo, and in Jewish and Musl
Who reads Living with the Law : Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Oded Zinger
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781512823806
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Sexuality & Gender Studies, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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