CARNAL ISRAEL: READING SEX IN TALMUDIC CULTURE (THE NEW By Daniel Boyarin *VG+*

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Country of Origin
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Hardcover
Publication Name
University of California Press
Item Height
9.5 inches
ISBN-10
0520080122
Original Language
English
ISBN
9780520080126
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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520080122
ISBN-13
9780520080126
eBay Product ID (ePID)
418232

Product Key Features

Book Title
Carnal Israel : Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
Judaism / History, Judaism / General, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity / General, Jewish
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion
Author
Daniel Boyarin
Book Series
The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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LCCN
92-009507
Dewey Edition
20
Series Volume Number
25
Dewey Decimal
296.12
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments A Note on the Term Rabbis Introduction 1. "Behold Israel According to the Flesh": On Anthropology and Sexuality in Late-Antique Judaisms 2. Dialectics of Desire: "The Evil Instinct Is Very Good" 3· Different Eves: Myths of Female Origins and the Discourse of Married Sex 4· Engendering Desire: Husbands, Wives, and Sexual Intercourse 5· Lusting After Learning: The Torah as "the Other Woman" 6. Studying Women: Resistance from Within the Male Discourse 7· (Re)producing Men: Constructing the Rabbinic Male Body Concluding Forward: Talmudic Study as Cultural Critique Bibliography General index Index of Primary Jewish Texts
Synopsis
Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism--that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church--Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. The body--specifically, the sexualized body--could not be renounced, for the Rabbis believed as a religious principle in the generation of offspring and hence in intercourse sanctioned by marriage. This belief bound men and women together and made impossible the various modes of gender separation practiced by early Christians. The commitment to coupling did not imply a resolution of the unequal distribution of power that characterized relations between the sexes in all late-antique societies. But Boyarin argues strenuously that the male construction and treatment of women in rabbinic Judaism did not rest on a loathing of the female body. Thus, without ignoring the currents of sexual domination that course through the Talmudic texts, Boyarin insists that the rabbinic account of human sexuality, different from that of the Hellenistic Judaisms and Pauline Christianity, has something important and empowering to teach us today.
LC Classification Number
BM496.9.S48.B69 1993

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