Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture - Rilegato

Boyarin, Daniel

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520080122 ISBN 13: 9780520080126

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1993

Riassunto

Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaismthat it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the ChurchDaniel 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 bodyspecifically, the sexualized bodycould 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley and the author ofA Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (California, 1994).

Product Description:

Book by Boyarin Daniel

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520080122
• ISBN 13: 9780520080126
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272