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Carnal Israel : reading sex in Talmudic culture / Daniel Boyarin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New historicism ; 25.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1995], �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520917125
  • 052091712X
  • 0585138818
  • 9780585138817
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Carnal Israel.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/2 20
LOC classification:
  • BM496.9.S48 B69 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"Behold Israel according to the flesh": on anthropology and sexuality in late-antique Judaisms -- Dialectics of desire: "The evil instinct is very good" -- Different Eves: myths of female origins and the discourse of married sex -- Engendering desire: husbands, wives, and sexual intercourse -- Lusting after learning: the Torah as "the other woman" -- Studying women: resistance from within the male discourse -- (Re)producing men: constructing the rabbinic male body.
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"A Centennial book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and indexes.

"Behold Israel according to the flesh": on anthropology and sexuality in late-antique Judaisms -- Dialectics of desire: "The evil instinct is very good" -- Different Eves: myths of female origins and the discourse of married sex -- Engendering desire: husbands, wives, and sexual intercourse -- Lusting after learning: the Torah as "the other woman" -- Studying women: resistance from within the male discourse -- (Re)producing men: constructing the rabbinic male body.

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