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Beruria legend: Babylonian view of, 183-84, 189, 190-92
cultural ambivalence of, 186-87, 193
and female Torah-study, 195-96
Palestinian view of, 182-83
Biale, David, 48, 121n.14, 136n.4, 163
Bialik, Haim Nahman, 96n
Biographical narratives (aggada), 11, 15-16
Bloch, R. Howard, 79n.5, 80n, 94, 208n.14
Body: in creation stories, 17-18, 36-38
of feminized male, 215-18
grotesque, 197-98, 201-4, 205-6, 208-9, 217
as human essence, 5, 6, 34, 231
marking cultural difference, 1-4, 5-7

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