Marriage, sex, and family in Judaism
By: edited by Michael J. Broyde and Michael Ausubel.
Contributors: Broyde, Michael J.; Ausubel, Michael.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.; Jewish families -- Conduct of life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The images of women in the Hebrew Bible / David Blumenthal; title: Jewish marriage : nature, covenant and contract / David Novak; title: Jewish law and the abandonment of marriage : diverse models of sexuality and reproduction in the Jewish view, and the return to monogamy in the modern era; title: Michael J. Broyde; title: Two models of medieval Jewish marriages / Michael S. Berger; title: Maimonides on sex and marriage / Michael S. Berger; title: Prenuptial agreements in talmudic, medieval and modern Jewish thought / Jonathan Reiss & Michael J. Broyde; title: The Jewish family in America : contemporary challenges and traditional resources / Elliot Dorff; title: What is a Jewish family? : changing rabbinic views / Jack Wertheimer; title: A break in the path : lesbian relationships and Jewish law / Angela Riccett; title: Cloning people and Jewish law / Michael J. Broyde.