The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual
Temple, Gender and Midrash
Biographical note
Ishay Rosen-Zvi is the Head of the Talmud and Late Antiquity section in the department of Hebrew Culture Studies at Tel-Aviv University, where he teaches Talmudic literature and culture. His main interests are: Midrashic hermeneutics; the formation of the Mishna; Temple rituals in rabbinic literature; and gender and sexuality in late antiquity. His Book Demonic Desires: YETZER HARA and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (2011).
Table of contents
Introduction: The Enigma of Tractate Sotah
Part One: Textual Studies
1: Warning and Hiding, Sotah 1:2
2: The Threat, Sotah 1:4
3: Humiliation. Sotah 1:5-6
4: Drinking and Death, Sotah 3:4-5
Part Two: Contextualizations
5: “Measure for Measure” in the Sotah Ritual
6. Historical Reality and Ideology in Mishnah Sotah
7. Theatrical Punishments: Ezekiel and the Mishnah
8. Texts and Rituals: The Riddle of Mishnah Sotah
Afterword: The Temple in the Mishnah
Part One: Textual Studies
1: Warning and Hiding, Sotah 1:2
2: The Threat, Sotah 1:4
3: Humiliation. Sotah 1:5-6
4: Drinking and Death, Sotah 3:4-5
Part Two: Contextualizations
5: “Measure for Measure” in the Sotah Ritual
6. Historical Reality and Ideology in Mishnah Sotah
7. Theatrical Punishments: Ezekiel and the Mishnah
8. Texts and Rituals: The Riddle of Mishnah Sotah
Afterword: The Temple in the Mishnah
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