Free Download And the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex by Rabbi Sarra Lev
English | January 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1512825174 | 392 pages | MOBI | 0.95 Mb
This book explores the question: How did the rabbis of the first two centuries CE approach bodies that are born with variant genitals―bodies that they could not identify as definitely male or female? The rabbis had constructed a system in which every behavior was governed by one’s sex/gender, posing a conundrum both for people who did not fit into that model and for the rabbinic enterprise itself. Despite this, their texts contain dozens of references to intersex.
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