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The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple, Gender and Midrash

By (author) Ishay Rosen-Zvi

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This study analyzes the specific textual formation of Mishna Sotah. Diverging significantly from its origins in the book of Numbers, the Mishnaic ritual was traditionally read by scholars as an ""ancient Mishna"", narrating an actual ritual practiced in the second temple. In contrast to this generally accepted view, this book claims that while Sotah does contain some traditions, its overall composition has a clear ideological and academic form. Furthermore, comparisons with parallel Tannaitic sources reveal the ideological redaction, which carefully selected only those opinions which support its rewriting of the ritual as a public punitive ritual, while rejecting all reservations and opposition to its specific punitive character – even ignoring the possibility of innocence of the suspected adulteress. The author’s groundbreaking conclusion is that, regardless of the form the real ritual did or did not take at the temple, the specific Mishnaic ritual was (re)invented by the rabbis in the second century C.E. From its very inception, it was purely textual, reflecting rabbinic imagination rather than memory.

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Publisher | Brill
Published date | 11 May 2012
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Format | Leather / fine binding
Pages | 302
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 630g
ISBN | 978-9-0042-1049-3
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BISAC | religion / judaism / general

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