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Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture

Daniel Boyarin

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture. To get started finding Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: University of California Press

Release: 1993

ISBN: 052091712X

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture. To get started finding Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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