Is It About Time, Bodies, or Both?

‘Trans Talmud’ by Max K. Strassfeld

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I just read Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld, published in 2022 by the University of California Press. I do my own thinking about eunuchs in history, and I’d really like to share several important takeaways from Strassfeld’s book.

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