Table of Contents 1. Women in the Temple 2. Women After The
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Table of Contents Tal Ilan Introduction 1 1. Women in the Temple Gtinter Stemberger Did Women Actively Participate in the Sacrificial Cult ofthe Temple of Jerusalem? Some Preliminary Observations 9 Andreas Lehnardt "The Scent ofWomen." Incense and Perfume in jSheq 5:2 (Sheqalim) 23 Marjorie Lehman Reading the Gendered Rhetoric of Yom Kippur (Yoma) 33 Moshe Benovit^ Miriam bat Bilgah in the Temple: Self, Symbol, Substitute or Stereotype? (Sukkah) 57 Ishaj Rosen-Zvi The Sotah in the Temple: A Well-Ordered Choreography (Sotah) 71 Tir^ah Meacham How Pragmatism Trumps Dogmatism: Marginalization and the Masses in the Case of Coming to the Temple (.Niddah) 85 2. Women after the Destruction of the Temple i Aryeh Cohen The Gender of Shabbat (Shabbat) 109 Gail l^abovit^ The Omitted Adornment: Women and Men Mourning the Destruction (Mo'ed Qatan) 127 http://d-nb.info/1023055899 X Table of Contents Klaus Herrmann Do Women have Access to the Divine Realm? Temple Ideology in Judaism ('Hagigah) 147 Christiane T^uberi "And the Woman is a High-Priest": From the Temple to the Kitchen, From the Laws of Ritual Im/Purity to the Laws of Kashrut (Toharot) 167 David hevine Why NoWomen in the Beit Midrash? 177 3. Women in the Temple and in Seder Qodashim Dvora Weisberg Clothes (un)Make the Man: bMenahot 109b (Menahot) 193 Jane Kanarek All are Obligated: Sacrifice, Sight and Study (Arakhin) 213 Monika Brockhaus 3V3 Trim nan pns: How do the "Harlot" and the "Dog" Affect the Sacrifice (Temurah) 225 Federico Dal Bo "Women to think with:" Sexual Transgressions as Heuristics in bKeritot 17a—20a (Keritot) 241 Dalia Marx Tractate Qinnim: Marginality or Horizons [Qinnim) 253 4. Women in Seder Qodashim Tal Ilan Males are for God, Females are for Us: Sacred and Kosher Slaughter Rhetorics in Seder Qodashim and Tractate Hullin (Hullin) 275 Moshe l^avee Birth, Seminal Emission and Conversion: Gender, Self-Control and Identity in bBekhorot (Bekhorot) 285 Table of Contents XI Reuven Kiperwasser Body of the Whore, Body of the Story and Metaphor of the Body (Bekhorot). 305 Sarra Lev "Metaphors of Me'ilah: 'Metaphoric' Use of the Word bva in Tanakh and in Rabbinic Sources" (Me'ila) 321 Appendix Ze'ev Safrai The Place of Women in Non-Establishment Religion During the Period of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud 341 List of Contributors 359 Index of Sources 361 Index of Gendered Terms 377 i .