Reading the Trans Talmud

June 21, 2022 00:47:22
Reading the Trans Talmud
Identity/Crisis (OLD FEED)
Reading the Trans Talmud

Jun 21 2022 | 00:47:22

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Show Notes

Those who succeeded in shaping how we read our texts are among the most powerful Jews in our history. Max Strassfeld, author and assistant professor in Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona, joins Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss their new book, which offers a way of rethinking human gender and sexuality in Jewish sources and pokes holes in trans-phobic interpretations.

Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max Strassfeld can be purchased with the discount code 21W2240 https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382053/trans-talmud

 

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