Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 352
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7425-4515-1 • Hardback • August 2005 • $139.00 • (£107.00)
978-0-7425-4516-8 • Paperback • August 2005 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
978-1-4616-3996-1 • eBook • August 2005 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Michael Broyde is a professor of law at Emory University, and the academic director of the law and religion program at Emory University. He is the author of Human Rights in Judaism, and Marriage, Divorce and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law.
Chapter 1 The Images of Women in the Hebrew Bible
Chapter 2 Jewish Marriage: Nature, Covenant and Contract
Chapter 3 Jewish Law and the Abandonment of Marriage: Diverse Models of Sexuality and Reproduction in the Jewish View and the Return to Monogamy in the Modern Era
Chapter 4 Two Models of Medieval Jewish Marriages
Chapter 5 Maimonides on Sex and Marriage
Chapter 6 Prenuptial Agreements in Talmudic, Medieval and Modern Jewish Thought
Chapter 7 The Jewish Family in America: Contemporary Challenges and Traditional Resources
Chapter 8 What is a Jewish Family? Changing Rabbinic Views
Chapter 9 A Break in the Path: Lesbian Relationships and Jewish Law
Chapter 10 Cloning People and Jewish Law
This collection of essays explores Jewish marriage from legal, historical, and social perspectives. Biblical models, the influence of gender, the rabbinic tradition, and contemporary issues are all reflected in this well-organized volume…the issues are covered in a serious, straightforward, fluid manner.
— Jewish Book World