Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture by Daniel Boyarin

Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture

New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics

Daniel Boyarin

272 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 huma...

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