{"product_id":"carnal-israel-reading-sex-in-talmudic-culture-paper-9780520203365","title":"Carnal Israel  Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning 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, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Term Rabbis\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Behold Israel According to the Flesh\": On Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e and Sexuality in Late-Antique Judaisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dialectics of Desire: \"The Evil Instinct Is Very Good\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3· Different Eves: Myths of Female Origins and the Discourse\u003cbr\u003e of Married Sex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4· Engendering Desire: Husbands, Wives, and Sexual Intercourse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5· Lusting After Learning: The Torah as \"the Other Woman\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Studying Women: Resistance from Within the Male Discourse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7· (Re)producing Men: Constructing the Rabbinic Male Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Forward: Talmudic Study as Cultural Critique\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e General index\u003cbr\u003e Index of Primary Jewish Texts","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402803093847,"sku":"9780520203365","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520203365.jpg?v=1730481551","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/carnal-israel-reading-sex-in-talmudic-culture-paper-9780520203365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}