Carnal Isræl: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (128 page)

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Authors: Daniel Boyarin

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latent misogynism of, 95-97
Maimonides compared to, 57, 59
marriage's importance to, 134-35, 136, 138-39
menstrual taboos of, 179, 180-81, 204-5
oppositional voices within, 241-42
priestly culture of, 210-11
reproduction anxiety of, 197-98, 204-5, 206, 208, 210-11
sexual coercion forbidden by, 113-15
 
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Rabbinic Judaism (
continued
)
116
, 117-20
sexual ideology of, 46-48, 72-73, 74, 75, 82-83, 91, 236
on woman's sexual role, 129-31
women's status in, 77, 80, 82-83, 93n, 94, 96, 105-6, 108-9, 133, 152-53, 236.
See also
Babylonian Judaism; Hellenistic Judaism; Palestinian Judaism
Rabbinic literature: biographical narratives of, 10-11
creation stories of, 17-18, 28, 36-37, 42-45, 86-88, 95-96, 101-2, 104-5
as dialectic, 26-29, 63-64, 67, 116, 173, 230, 240
documents of, 11, 13-16, 23-24
as historical, 16-17, 137-38, 154-55
source for, 26-27
woman portrayed in, 80-81, 82-83, 108-9
Rabbis, the: absent from wives, 142, 143-45, 146-49, 150-51, 155-56, 158, 241

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