Sexuality In The Babylonian Talmud

Author : Yishai Kiel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1316658805

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Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud by Yishai Kiel Pdf

Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian Talmud, Yishai Kiel explores rabbinic discussions of sex in light of cultural assumptions and dispositions that pervaded the cultures of late antiquity and particularly the Iranian world. By negotiating the Iranian context of the rabbinic discussion alongside the Christian backdrop, this groundbreaking volume presents a balanced and nuanced portrayal of the rabbinic discourse on sexuality and situates rabbinic discussions of sex more broadly at the crossroads of late antique cultures. The study is divided into two thematic sections: the first centers on the broader aspects of rabbinic discourse on sexuality while the second hones in on rabbinic discussions of sexual prohibitions and the classification of permissible and prohibited partnerships, with particular attention to rabbinic discussions of incest. Essential reading for scholars and graduate students of Judaic studies, early Christianity, and Iranian studies, as well as those interested in religious studies and comparative religion.

Author : Yishai Kiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107155510

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Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud by Yishai Kiel Pdf

This book explores sex and sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud within the context of competing cultural discourses, for students of comparative religion.

Author : Lisa L. Grushcow
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881232240

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Sacred Encounter by Lisa L. Grushcow Pdf

This wide-ranging anthology takes a close look at the breadth of human sexuality from a Jewish perspective. The essays begin with a look at biblical and rabbinic views on sexuality, and then proceed to explorations of sexuality at different moments in the life cycle, sexuality and the marital model, diverse expressions of sexuality, examples of sexuality education, the nexus of sexuality and theology, and the challenges of contemporary sexual ethics. The Sacred Encounter is a thought-provoking and important Jewish resource. Perfect for personal study, or for high school or adult classes.

Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520203365

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Carnal Israel by Daniel Boyarin Pdf

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.

Author : Amy Scheinerman, Rabbi
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780827612648

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The Talmud of Relationships, Volume 1 by Amy Scheinerman, Rabbi Pdf

How can I tame my ego? How might I control my anger? How might I experience the spirituality of sexual intimacy? How can I bestow appropriate honor on a difficult parent? How might I accept my own suffering and the suffering of those whom I love? Enter the Talmudic study house with innovative teacher Rabbi Amy Scheinerman and continue the Jewish values–based conversations that began two thousand years ago. The Talmud of Relationships, Volume 1 shows how the ancient Jewish texts of Talmud can facilitate modern relationship-building—with parents, children, spouses, family members, friends, and ourselves. Scheinerman devotes each chapter to a different Talmud text exploring relationships—and many of the selections are fresh, largely unknown passages. Overcoming the roadblocks of language and style that can keep even the curious from diving into Talmud, she walks readers through the logic of each passage, offering full textual translations and expanding on these richly complex conversations, so that each of us can weigh multiple perspectives and draw our own conclusions. Scheinerman provides grounding in why the selected passage matters, its historical background, a gripping narrative of the rabbis’ evolving commentary, insightful anecdotes and questions for thought and discussion, and a cogent synopsis. Through this firsthand encounter with the core text of Judaism, readers of all levels—Jews and non-Jews, newcomers and veterans, students and teachers, individuals and chevruta partners and families alike—will discover the treasure of the oral Torah.

Author : Danya Ruttenberg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814776056

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The Passionate Torah by Danya Ruttenberg Pdf

This collection of essays from Jewish scholars explores a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality. Amongst other topics, it looks at post-modernism, feminism and gay liberation, discussing how subjects such as these have challenged time-honoured traditions and ways of thinking.

Author : Lynn Kaye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108423236

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Time in the Babylonian Talmud by Lynn Kaye Pdf

Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.

Author : Gregg Drinkwater,Joshua Lesser,David Shneer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814769775

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Torah Queeries by Gregg Drinkwater,Joshua Lesser,David Shneer Pdf

Commentaries from gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and straight contributors examine modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life.

Author : Michael L. Satlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015037788190

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Tasting the Dish by Michael L. Satlow Pdf

Author : Michael Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190845919

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Signs of Virginity by Michael Rosenberg Pdf

Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity; it seldom, if ever, appears outside of Abrahamic traditions. In Signs of Virginity, Michael Rosenberg examines the history of virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to a culture that encourages male sexual violence. Deuteronomy's violent vision of virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since. However, Rosenberg points to two authors-the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud and the early Christian thinker Augustine of Hippo-who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female virginity, nonetheless attempt to subvert the emphasis on sexual dominance bequeathed to them by Deuteronomy. Unlike the authors of earlier Rabbinic and Christian texts, who modified but fundamentally maintained and even extended the Deuteronomic ideal, the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine both construct alternative models of female virginity that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity. Indeed this vision of masculinity as fundamentally gentle, rather than characterized by brutal and violent sexual behavior, fits into a broader idealization of masculinity propagated by both authors, who reject what Augustine called a "lust for dominance" as a masculine ideal.

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107023017

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Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal Pdf

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

Author : William Loader
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802870957

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Making Sense of Sex by William Loader Pdf

This book is about listening to what writers were saying about sex in early Judaism and Christianity -- ancient words surprisingly relevant for today. It functions as both a summary and a conclusion to William Loader's five previous books on sexuality in a form accessible to those who may not have a background knowledge of early Judaism and Christianity. It also contains a useful subject index to those five previous volumes. In examining thoroughly all the relevant writings and related evidence of the Greco-Roman period, Loader dialogues with scholarship related to each writing in order to make his conclusions as objective as possible. By enabling the reader to listen respectfully to these ancient texts, Making Sense of Sex provides a basis for informed discussion of sexual issues today.

Author : Stephen Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351924733

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Judaism and Islam by Stephen Hunt Pdf

This volume on Judaism and Islam in The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion series overviews perceptions of human sexuality through two major monotheistic faiths, namely Judaism and Islam. Part 1 presents previously published articles on Judaism and sexuality from a historical perspective, in particular, through the writings of the Tanakh and traditional Judaic attitudes. Part 2 focuses more cogently on contemporary themes including both the contestation and defence of conventional Jewish standpoints on sexuality via orthodox and liberal renderings of the faith. Part 3 includes articles examining Islamic views of sexuality from a historical perspective. Here there is a special focus on the faith's construction of sexual categories, as well as the relationship between sexuality, gender and patriarchy. Part 4 takes a cross-cultural and global perspective of the subject with a particular emphasis on the connection between sexuality and moral regulation, besides scrutinising varying and contrasting cultural attitudes in Islamic communities today.

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107195363

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Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal Pdf

Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

Author : Roni Weinstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004181205

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Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy by Roni Weinstein Pdf

This detailed introduction to the text Tiferet Bachurim (The Glory of Youth), written in the mid-seventeenth century in Ferrara, Italy, discusses the profound changes in Jewish Italian communities regarding sexuality, control of the juvenile body, and the role of Kabbalah in The Jewish Counter Reformation.