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Carnal Israel - Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (Paperback, Revised)
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Carnal Israel - Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 25
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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.
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