Aryeh Cohen, ‘Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot’

Originally published in the Journal of Semitic Studies, 47:2 (2002), pp. 357-8. Aryeh Cohen, Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot (Brown Judaic Series 318). Scholars Press, Atlanta 1998. Pp. iv + 242. Price: $34.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-7885-0499-1. This book started its life as a doctoral dissertation and, although it has evidently been thoroughly revised,…