- Judith Hauptman
Rabbi Judith Rebecca Hauptman (born 1943) is a
feminist Jewish Talmud ic scholar. She grew up in theBrooklyn borough ofNew York City ,New York ,United States .Hauptman received a degree in Talmud from the Seminary College of Jewish Studies at
Jewish Theological Seminary , a B.A. in economics fromBarnard College , and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Talmudic studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She also studied atHebrew University inJerusalem .Hauptman was ordained as a
rabbi in May 2003 by theAcademy for Jewish Religion . She is presently the E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Chair of the Department of Talmud and Rabbinics.Rabbi Hauptman has written on issues of Talmudic Law and on women's issues in Rabbinic and modern Judaism. Her view is that the ancient rabbis gradually granted women more autonomy and enacted laws that dealt with women in a fairer manner.
Bibliography
*Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman's Voice (1987).
*Development of the Talmudic Sugya: Relationship Between Tannaitic and Amoraic Sources (1988).
*"Abortion: Where We Stand" (United Synagogue Review, Spring 1990).
* "Women in the Conservative Synagogue," in Daughters of the King: Women and the Synagogue (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1992)/
*"A Time to Mourn, A Time to Heal" (Celebration and Renewal, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1993).
*"Judaism and a Just Economy," (Tikkun, January/February 1994).
*"Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Jewish Feminism" (The Americanization of the Jews, New York: New York University Press, 1995).
*"Mishnah as a Response to Tosefta" (The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Brown Judaic Series, 2000).ee also
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Talmud
*Conservative Judaism
*Jewish feminism External links
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/hauptman.html profile] , Virtual Jewish Library
* [http://www.ajrsem.org/alum-gallery/pages/hauptman.htm profile] Jewish Theological Seminary
* [http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/judaism/juda-lit/juda-lit-hauptman.html Sexual Ethics] Brandeis
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