Tradition and Equality in Jewish Marriage
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- ISBN 9781441138064
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2012
- Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Often when people have become alienated from their religious backgrounds, they access their traditions through lifecycle events such as marriage. At times, modern values such as gender equality may be at odds with some of the traditions; many of which have always been in a state of flux in relationship to changing social, economic and political realities. Traditional Jewish marriage is based on the man acquiring the woman, which has symbolic and actual ramifications. Grounded in the traditional texts yet accessible, this book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study, the highest cultural practice and women's exemption from positive commandments. Melanie Landau offers two alternative models of partnership that partially or fully bypass the non-reciprocity of traditional Jewish marriage and that have their basis in the ancient rabbinic texts.
Melanie Landau is Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Australia. She is Co-Director of a consortium of Interreligious Dialogue and Studies at Monash University, Australia, and is in the Diaspora Committee of the Jewish Law Association. She has received the Brandeis-Hadassah Junior Research Award for research in Judaism and Gender. She has also acted as a marriage consultant with both couples and women before marriage.
