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

Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1995], ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) Series The New historicism ; 25 New historicism ; 25. 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 Notes "A Centennial book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and indexes Notes Print version record 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. RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud. 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 Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520917125 052091712X 0585138818 9780585138817

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