Julia Watts Belser is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. She is the author of Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity.

Overall, this book is an important intervention in rabbinic studies. Belser brings important new insights through gender and disability studies analysis of the Bavli Gittin.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Sexual Politics of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Sin in Bavli GittinChapter 2: Sex in the Shadow of Rome: Sexual Violence and Theological Lament in Bavli Gittin's Disaster TalesChapter 3: Conquered Bodies in the Roman Bedroom: The Gender Politics of Beauty in Bavli Gittin's Destruction TalesChapter 4: Disability Studies and the Destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the Subversive Potency of Dissident FleshChapter 5: Materiality and Memory: Body, Blood, and Land in Rabbinic Tales of Death and DismembermentChapter 6: Romans Before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic Fantasies of Recompense, Revenge and the Transformation of FleshChapter 7: Opulence and Oblivion: Class, Status, and Self Critique in Bavli Gittin's Tales of Feasting and Fasting Postlude: Theology in the Flames: Empathy, Cataclysm, and God's Responsivity to Suffering in Bavli Gittin

Julia Watts Belser is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. She is the author of Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity.

Overall, this book is an important intervention in rabbinic studies. Belser brings important new insights through gender and disability studies analysis of the Bavli Gittin.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Sexual Politics of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Sin in Bavli GittinChapter 2: Sex in the Shadow of Rome: Sexual Violence and Theological Lament in Bavli Gittin's Disaster TalesChapter 3: Conquered Bodies in the Roman Bedroom: The Gender Politics of Beauty in Bavli Gittin's Destruction TalesChapter 4: Disability Studies and the Destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the Subversive Potency of Dissident FleshChapter 5: Materiality and Memory: Body, Blood, and Land in Rabbinic Tales of Death and DismembermentChapter 6: Romans Before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic Fantasies of Recompense, Revenge and the Transformation of FleshChapter 7: Opulence and Oblivion: Class, Status, and Self Critique in Bavli Gittin's Tales of Feasting and Fasting Postlude: Theology in the Flames: Empathy, Cataclysm, and God's Responsivity to Suffering in Bavli Gittin

Julia Watts Belser is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. She is the author of Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity.

Overall, this book is an important intervention in rabbinic studies. Belser brings important new insights through gender and disability studies analysis of the Bavli Gittin.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Sexual Politics of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Sin in Bavli GittinChapter 2: Sex in the Shadow of Rome: Sexual Violence and Theological Lament in Bavli Gittin's Disaster TalesChapter 3: Conquered Bodies in the Roman Bedroom: The Gender Politics of Beauty in Bavli Gittin's Destruction TalesChapter 4: Disability Studies and the Destruction of Jerusalem: Rabbi Tsadok and the Subversive Potency of Dissident FleshChapter 5: Materiality and Memory: Body, Blood, and Land in Rabbinic Tales of Death and DismembermentChapter 6: Romans Before the Rabbis' God: Rabbinic Fantasies of Recompense, Revenge and the Transformation of FleshChapter 7: Opulence and Oblivion: Class, Status, and Self Critique in Bavli Gittin's Tales of Feasting and Fasting Postlude: Theology in the Flames: Empathy, Cataclysm, and God's Responsivity to Suffering in Bavli Gittin