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Rabbinic tales of destruction : sex, gender, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem by Associate Professor of Jewish Studies Julia Watts Belser; Julia Watts Belser is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rabbinic tales of destruction : sex, gender, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem about?

In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual violence, enslavement, forced prostitution, disability, and bodily risk, Belser argues, our readings of rabbinic narrative must wrestle with the brutal body costs of Roman imperial domination. She brings disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought to accounts of rabbinic catastrophe, revealing how rabbinic discourses of g

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Author

Associate Professor of Jewish Studies Julia Watts Belser; Julia Watts Belser

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190853259

Category

religious

Subjects

True Crime, Literary Fiction, Religion

Updated

2026-03-25