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June 1, 2016
A Medieval Jewish Scholar’s “Feminist” Reading of a Talmudic Passage
"There is nothing that satisfies her more than that you will listen to her."
Written in a mixture of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic (a Jewish dialect of Arabic written in Hebrew characters), a fragment found in the Cairo Genizah and authored by an anonymous medieval scholar presents a decidedly modern reading of the decidedly un-feminist opening of the talmudic tractate Kiddushin, which begins “A woman is acquired in three ways.” Zvi Stampfer writes:
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A Medieval Jewish Scholar’s “Feminist” Reading of a Talmudic Passage
"There is nothing that satisfies her more than that you will listen to her."