raped virgins mothers harlots whores children aso!

Terug
naar en
voorwaarts met Danny
Boyarin 'thinking with virgins & dying for g d'
over 'martyrdom & the making of christianity & judaism',
dat past ook best wel mooi in deze dagen
van 't z.g. geheim
van Soestdijk?!

"In the rabbinic world,
there can be no virgin martyrs?"

The daughter
has to escape from the brothel,
not only to reopen and revalorize the trickster option,
but also because she must
not die a virgin.

The female virgin
provided a highly valued model of rabbinic and patristic resistance
to certain "Roman" cultural values
and practices, as we
have seen.

But
this Jewish virgin,
insofar as she is a girl
and not a mere device for the exploration of male selves,
is subtly different from her Christian sisters. She escapes her fated sexual violation,
not through open resistance, resistance that ultimately costs her her life,
like the second -century Perpetua, whose continued martial life is
interpreted as sexual violation, or even like the fourth-century Agnes,
but instead through the use of trickster methods, "feminine" wiles,
which allow her to escape both fates,
rape as well
as death.

If the paradigmatic virgin
for the fourth-century Fathers was the virgin martyr,
the paradigmatic virgin for the Rabbis was the virgin in the brothel,
who will, in the end,
be a virgin
bride.

The story
of Miryam bat Tanhum
& the martyrdom of the wife of Rabbi Hanina here demonstrate this rule,
since in both cases, the martyrdom is simply an appendix to the martyrdom of the men
in their lives, and in neither case do we have much more
than a mere mention
of the death of
the women.

Moreover,
both are certainly
not virgin
martyrs.

Indeed,
they are martyred
mothers.

"Eroticized
self-sacrificial death",
remained only for men. In part,
this is simply a reflection of different
gender/body politics
in the two religious
communities.

The
female roles
of wife and mother
were so highly honored in the rabbinic world,
in which sexuality and procreation were central values,
that women were practically excluded from all other possibilities,
including those, notably the teaching of Torah,
that would lead to
martyrdom.

The emblem
of saintly womanhood
for traditional Judaism has been Rachel,
the wife of Rabbi Akiva, whose martyrdom consisted of waiting for him in poverty and chastity
for twenty-four years while he was off studying
in the Yeshiva.

The intertextual
models for women heroes
in Judeo~Greek literature are always chaste wives or widows,
the only virgin being Sarah
in the Book of Tobit.

This acute observation
only sharpens the question of why this should be so.
To get a sense of the significance of this difference between rabbinic Judaism and Christianity in the third
and fourth centuries, one need only pay close attention to the struggles Christian writers had in valorizing married female martyrs in the fifth century,
as documented only recently.

This, then,
provides a direct contrast
with the intertextual models mobilized in non-Christian Jewish circles.
In medieval Jewish female martyrology, the two instances of public and dangerous female heroism
that are usually focused upon are attendance at the ritual bath {following menstruation and prior to the resumption of sexual relations},
of the married
woman.

Rabbinic
Judaism and
Christianity are two
different systems
of sex/gender.

Ambrose,
in On Virgins,
explicitly distinguishes between
teh permanent virginity espoused by the Church
and temporary chastity, such as that of the Vestals, a fortiori also that of Jewish girls
or the heroines of Greek novels. Note that even in Ambrose's version of "virgin in the brothel"
story, the virgin ends up in the arena,
a martyr.


Anyway:
die profetische
voorgeschiedenis maakt ons
na 2000 jaar wel bewust van het feit dat
we niet alleen maar allemaal behoefte hebben aan fris helder stromend water,
voldoende gezond voedsel, noodzakelijke kleding, behuizing, studie, werk & ontplooiingskansen,
maar vooral ook aan de zekerheid van een normaal menselijk{er} bestaan zonder permanente angst voor nog meer aanranding, verkrachting, vrouwenhandel, kinderporno overgoten
met een uebervette kommersjele saus van 'contact/seks-advertenties',
belachelijk 'geile' reklame, hebzuchtige huichelarij
& al die aanverwante 'moderne' crises vol
onbenullige akeligheid & veel te dom
gewauwel & geruzie
om niks
...
blozen
12 nov 2008 - meld ongepast verhaal
Weet je zeker dat je dit verhaal wilt rapporteren? Ja | Nee
Profielfoto van Asih
Asih, man, 80 jaar
   
Log in om een reactie te plaatsen.   vorige volgende