Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished : A Study of the Status "Female Slave" in Early Jewish Law

A masterful intersection of Bible studies, gender studies, and rabbinic law, Diane Kriger explores the laws pertaining to female slaves in Jewish law. Comparing biblical strictures with later rabbinic interpretations as well as contemporary Greco-Roman and Babylonian codes of law, Kriger establishes...

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Main Author: Kriger, Diane (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Academic Studies Press 2008
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