Carnal Israel : reading sex in Talmudic culture /

Carnal Israel : reading sex in Talmudic culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Boyarin, Daniel.
Imprint:	Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1995], ©1993.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 272 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	The New historicism ; 25 New historicism ; 25.
Subject:	Sex in rabbinical literature. Human body in rabbinical literature. Women in rabbinical literature. Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism. Sex -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Human body -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Women in Judaism. Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425. Human body in rabbinical literature. Human body -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Judaism -- Talmudic period. Rabbinical literature. Sex in rabbinical literature. Sex -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Women in Judaism. Women in rabbinical literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11108517

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ISBN:	9780520917125 052091712X 0585138818 9780585138817 0520080122 0520203364
Notes:	"A Centennial book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and indexes. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Boyarin, Daniel. Carnal Israel. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1995, ©1993 0520080122

Table of 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.