Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature / Max K. Strassfeld.
"Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profo...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Transing Late Antiquity : the politics of the study of eunuchs and androgynes
- The gendering of law : the androgyne and the hybrid animal in Bikkurim
- Sex with androgynes
- Transing the eunuch : kosher and damaged masculinity
- Eunuch temporality : the saris and the aylonit
- Conclusion: Rereading the rabbis (again).