Carnal Israel

Name: Carnal Israel
ISBN: 9780520203365

reading sex in Talmudic culture

pa Daniel Boyarin

3/5

(52 balsojumi)

Formāts: 284 lapas, Paperback
Pirmo reizi publicēts: 1995
Izdevēji: Univivesity of California press
Valoda: English

Boyarin fails miserably in this tome to make use of the critical scholarship that has been written in the past 30 years on the rabbis and on rabbinic literature. He speaks of Hellenistic Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism rather than of the individual authors and editors of texts who lived distinct lives and thought distinct thoughts.

You don't have to be a radical traditionalist to understand how Boyarin deliberately misinterprets the Talmud and projects onto it his own feminist, post-modernist ideas.

Boyarin manages to cover some very interesting Talmudic material on gender and sexuality in an intelligent and informed manner. He also has a deep understanding of cultural theory, and argues for a number of exceptionally striking theses regarding Talmuds' (deliberate plural: he contrasts the Babylonian Talmud with the Jerusalem or Land of Israel Talmud) relationships to sexuality, gender, and embodiment.

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