Marital relations in ancient Judaism
By: Étan Levine
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte -- Bd. 10; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte -- Bd. 10.
Publisher: Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9783447058681
Subjects: Altes Testament; Judaism; Huwelijk; Verwantschap; Sex; Jewish marriage customs and rites; Familie; Ehe; Marriage; Judentum; Marriage (Jewish law); Sex role; History of doctrines; History; Eherecht; Geschlechterbeziehung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Introduction to a people; title: Kinship and law in biblical Israel; title: The home as a 'small temple'; title: On gender and legal status; title: Love as a legal construct; title: Validating human eroticism; title: Free will, law and the moral imperative; title: Woman as sexual suspect; title: Sexual relations in marriage law; title: The time to refrain from embracing; title: Love's body : anticipation and idealization; title: Lawful conjugality : the loving embrace; title: Children : married life and eternal life; title: Epilogue.