ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the historic mutations of the stipulations and endeavors to ascertain the role of the Eldadian literature in the changes to the Jewish woman’s standing at the close of the Middle Ages. In this sense, reconstructing the various stages in the transmission of the Danite’s writing falls under the purview of gender studies. A survey of the various incarnations of Eldad’s prohibition on women acting as kosher slaughters aligned several sets of dichotomies, medieval and modern; men and women; holy and profane; and private and public. The move from the Middle Ages into the early modern time saw a revival of the ancient attitudes of ritual and the sacred, such as Eldad’s. In the case, demographic, economic, and cultural realities propelled women out from the domestic realm into the male-dominated public sphere, allowing them to gain education and written certificates.
