Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature pomegranate Facing a world of outrageous

Facing a world of outrageous injustice

and dispelling negative forces such as the evil eye

Up until very recently the Kabbalah was reserved for the elite

leaving them with more questions than answers

Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature pomegranate Facing a world of outrageousTrans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions.