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Tamara Cohn Eskenazi has a unique position in modern biblical scholarship. one of the first to carry a spotlight of scholarly consciousness to the interval of old Israel's creativity after the Exile, she has additionally been a pacesetter in foregrounding the Jewish culture in the interpretative discourse of biblical students. And as a girl student, she has complex the learn of matters within the Hebrew Bible that impinge at the issues of ladies historic and glossy. Tamara Eskenazi used to be offered the 2008 nationwide Jewish publication Award for her quantity The Torah: A Women's observation and the 2011 nationwide Jewish ebook Award in Women's reviews for her remark on Ruth within the Jewish booklet Society Bible remark sequence. The 26 articles provided to Tamara Eskenazi by means of her neighbors during this quantity characterize the diversity of her pursuits in all issues biblical and Jewish. From Genesis to the recent testomony to trendy Hebrew fiction, from technical reviews at the prophets or Qumran to penetrating insights on her cherished thinker Levinas, this quantity superbly represents the variety and intensity of Jewish tradition. The members are Rachel Adler, Annette Aronowicz, Judith R. Baskin, Athalya Brenner, Mark G. Brett, Catherine Chalier, David J.A. Clines, William Cutter, Pamela Eisenbaum, David Ellenson, Lisbeth S. Fried, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Sara Japhet, Gary N. Knoppers, Francis Landy, Adriane Leveen, Heather A. McKay, David L. Petersen, Jack M. Sasson, Jesper Svartvik, Marvin A. Sweeney, Phyllis Trible, Gene M. Tucker, Andrea L. Weiss, H.G.M. Williamson and Jacob L. Wright.
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Some women definitely wrote their own letters. In one example a dying woman, who had herself received a good education, invokes their ‘saintly mother’ when she begs her sister to care for the woman’s daughter, and ‘to make efforts to give her an education, although I know well that I am asking you for something unreasonable, as there is not enough money for maintenance, let alone education’ (Goitein 1962: 66-67; 1967–1993: III, 353-54; Kraemer 1995: 164). As this despairing letter indicates, education was expensive and it seems likely that the few girls who did receive substantive instruction in reading and writing, whether in Hebrew or Arabic, were daughters of prosperous families.
3 In talking about it, he often resorts to metaphor, as if illustrating the impossibility of speaking about transcendence without metaphor or of metaphor without transcendence. 6 1. These reflections come in two formats. The first is a series of fragments, notes Levinas jotted down on scraps of paper both during his internment in a German prisoner of war camp in the Second World War, and in the subsequent 15 years or so. They can be found in the first of the unpublished volumes, Emmanuel Levinas, Carnets de captivité et autres inédits: Oeuvres 1 (ed.
If this precaution is not taken, he writes, ‘their Torah study will be accomplished while sinning’ (Parma edition, par. 800; Kanarfogel 1992: 104). The majority of Jewish girls were instructed at home. Mothers taught their daughters cooking, needlework, and household management, as well as the rules of rabbinic Judaism applicable to home and marriage; these were considered essential so that a woman would know how to observe dietary laws, domestic regulations pertaining to the Sabbath and festivals, and the commandments relevant to her family life and her relations with her husband (Baskin, 1991; Grossman 2004: 158-70).