Hidde & Ilan, Massekhet Shevuʿot (Mohr Siebeck)

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Tanja Hidde, Tal Ilan

Massekhet Shevuʿot

Volume IV/6. Text, Translation, and Commentary

[Massekhet Shevu' ot . Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar.]
2025. XI, 306 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-164525-9

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Summary

Tanja Hidde and Tal Ilan offer a feminist commentary on the Massekhet Shevuʿot of the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud by focusing on women and gender in the texts. The tractate deals with oaths, mostly in a legal, court context. In presenting and interpreting the texts in Mishnah Shevuʿot , Tanja Hidde is concerned first and foremost with the discussion of women's participation in court cases that require oath-swearing, as well as women's exclusion from serving as witnesses.
Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, Tal Ilan shows that, in their commentary on Mishnah Shevuʿot , the Babylonian rabbis continually use chapter 5 of the Book of Numbers, because it includes a wife suspected of adultery, who swears an oath. Tal Ilan illustrates that the Babylonian rabbis use the wife's oath-swearing as a basis for commenting on other actions of both men and women.

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