Max K. Strassfeld is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona.

"In a world that seeks to erase our history and our bodies, these texts provide images of a past where we may have existed, albeit with complexities. To study Talmud is to dream our past into the future, and to engage in the act of traveling through time accompanied by our ancestors’ voices. . . . As queer, trans and nonbinary Jews do the work of consciously creating a usable past, Trans Talmud invites us to do so with more integrity and precision."

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Transing Late Antiquity: The Politics of the Study of Eunuchs and Androgynes2. The Gendering of Law: The Androgyne and the Hybrid Animal in Bikkurim3. Sex with Androgynes4. Transing the Eunuch: Kosher and Damaged Masculinity5. Eunuch Temporality: The Saris and the AylonitConclusion: Rereading the Rabbis AgainBibliographyGlossaryInde

Max K. Strassfeld is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona.

"In a world that seeks to erase our history and our bodies, these texts provide images of a past where we may have existed, albeit with complexities. To study Talmud is to dream our past into the future, and to engage in the act of traveling through time accompanied by our ancestors’ voices. . . . As queer, trans and nonbinary Jews do the work of consciously creating a usable past, Trans Talmud invites us to do so with more integrity and precision."

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Transing Late Antiquity: The Politics of the Study of Eunuchs and Androgynes2. The Gendering of Law: The Androgyne and the Hybrid Animal in Bikkurim3. Sex with Androgynes4. Transing the Eunuch: Kosher and Damaged Masculinity5. Eunuch Temporality: The Saris and the AylonitConclusion: Rereading the Rabbis AgainBibliographyGlossaryInde

Max K. Strassfeld is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona.

"In a world that seeks to erase our history and our bodies, these texts provide images of a past where we may have existed, albeit with complexities. To study Talmud is to dream our past into the future, and to engage in the act of traveling through time accompanied by our ancestors’ voices. . . . As queer, trans and nonbinary Jews do the work of consciously creating a usable past, Trans Talmud invites us to do so with more integrity and precision."

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Transing Late Antiquity: The Politics of the Study of Eunuchs and Androgynes2. The Gendering of Law: The Androgyne and the Hybrid Animal in Bikkurim3. Sex with Androgynes4. Transing the Eunuch: Kosher and Damaged Masculinity5. Eunuch Temporality: The Saris and the AylonitConclusion: Rereading the Rabbis AgainBibliographyGlossaryInde