Feminist Complaint

[debka_notion]

1. On an academic note, the following quote from Jacob Neusner's article "Scripture and Tradition": "If we regard the Mishnah as independent revelation, "oral Torah" in teh strict sense, then we must deem tradition to be a kind of Torah.  If we regard the Mishnah as contingent, then tradition stands in a very close and comfortable bond with Scripture: Scripture's companion, complement, necessary consequence.  So the Mishnah may be deemed (to invoke the appropriate metaphor) depending upon the position you take, to be the daughter of Scripture or the wife." 

Very little probably needs to be said about why this particular set of sentences riles me up.  But I have to say, it really, really irks me. 

Comments

[rav-hadassah.livejournal.com]

He sounds like a real charmer!

The daughter metaphor... OK... but the wife metaphor? Not cool.

You cannot expect a parent-child relationship to be completely egalitarian. But a spousal relationship... oy vey.