Language, Gender and Law in the Judaeo-Islamic Milieu

Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 10
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42216-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval / Cambridge Genizah Studies

The articles in this volume focus on the legal, linguistic, historical and literary roles of Jewish women in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages. Drawing heavily on manuscript evidence from the Cairo Genizah, the authors examine the challenges involved in the identification and interpretation of women’s letters from medieval Egypt, the registers of women’s written language, the relations between Jewish women and the Muslim legal system, the conversion of women, visions of women in Hell and gendered readings in the aggadic tradition of Judaism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stampfer, Zvi

Ashur, Amir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Editorial Statement

Members of the Workshop “Language, Gender and Law in the Judaeo-Islamic Milieu”

1 Genizah Sociolinguistics: the Language of Women

Esther-Miriam Wagner

2 The Challenge of Reading Women’s Letters from the Cairo Genizah

Renée Levine Melammed

3 Jewish Women in Muslim Legal Venues: Seven Legal Documents from the Cairo Genizah

Oded Zinger

4 Captives, Converts, and Concubines: Gendered Aspects of Conversion to Judaism in the Medieval Near East

Moshe Yagur

5 No (Jewish) Women in Hell

Tali Artman-Partock

6 Portrayals of Biblical Figures in Lost Aggadic Traditions from the Cairo Genizah: Feminist Considerations

Moshe Lavee

Index of Sources

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Genizah and Other Manuscripts

Über Autor(innen)

Zvi Stampfer, Ph.D. (2005), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is head of the Research Authority of Orot Israel College, researcher in the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University and the editor of Ginzei-Qedem: Genizah Research Annual.

Amir Ashur, Ph.D. (2006), Tel Aviv University, is a researcher at Orot Israel College and Tel Aviv University. His major field of study is the Cairo Genizah—the ‘documentary Geniza’, Maimonides and Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations.