A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud

“A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud” has its goal as that of critiquing all institutions and establishments, both religious and secular, with the purpose of exposing their hierarchical and androcentric structures in the Babylonian Talmud. The Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud require a feminist commentary: there can be little doubt of the influence they have exerted and still exert on Jewish women’s lives. A feminist commentary must take into account many of the terms and concepts developed by feminist thinkers concerning the ways in which one can understand the texts that are being critiqued.