Trans Talmud

"In a world that seeks to erase our history and our bodies, these texts provide images of a past where we may have existed, albeit with complexities. To study Talmud is to dream our past into the future, and to engage in the act of traveling through time accompanied by our ancestors' voices. . . . As queer, trans and nonbinary Jews do the work of consciously creating a usable past, Trans Talmud invites us to do so with more integrity and precision."

* Lilith *
"Dr. Max Strass-feld, Assis-tant Pro-fes-sor of Reli-gious Stud-ies at the Uni-ver-si-ty of Ari-zona, now offers us a wel-come guide to Tal-mu-dic gender(s) in this metic-u-lous, far-reach-ing, and lyri-cal book. It wel-comes a wide vari-ety of read-ers with patient expla-na-tions of cen-tral con-cepts in the fields of gen-der and queer stud-ies and the world of the Tal-mud and rab-binic lit-er-a-ture of late antiq-ui-ty." * Jewish Book Council *
"Strassfield...nourishes the discussion of the ancient texts on a marginalized community then and now. Recommended to interested individuals and academic libraries." * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *
"Trans Talmud regularly disrupts our understandings of sex, gender and sexuality, and so too of what scholarship itself is meant to be. Strassfeld makes these texts come to life as he sprinkles gems of insight and relevance throughout." * Journal of Jewish Studies *
"A thought-provoking book. . . . [that] will be a point of reference for future studies on bodies that challenge the binary categorization of sex/gender in late ancient Jewish literature and beyond." * Religious Studies Review *
"Trans 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. " * Reading Religion *