Carnal Israel
Subtitle: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (New Historicism-Studies in Cultural Poetics , No 25)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780520203365
Subjects: Jewish studies; Judaism; Religion - Judaism; Religion; Judaism - Sacred Writings; Social Science / Jewish Studies
First sentence: One of the tendencies of Greek-speaking Judaism-including Paul's-that divided it from rabbinic Judaism seems to have been the acceptance of what might be broadly called a platonic conception of the human being, for which the soul is the self, and the body only its dwelling place or worse.