Androgynous Judaism

Download or read book Androgynous Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's foremost scholar on formative Judaism examines the issue of gender as it appears in the corpus of rabbinic literature and arrives at some provocative conclusions. While the structure of Judaism based on the dual Torah is clearly masculine in orientation, the substructure--the religious system that shapes its values and perception--is androgynous, an individual conjunction of genders. In fact, the higher values, as defined by the relevant writings, prove to be feminine.