Carnal Isræl: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (106 page)

Beruria legend: Babylonian view of, 183-84, 189, 190-92

cultural ambivalence of, 186-87, 193

and female Torah-study, 195-96

Palestinian view of, 182-83

Biale, David, 48, 121n.14, 136n.4, 163

Bialik, Haim Nahman, 96n

Biographical narratives (aggada), 11, 15-16

Bloch, R. Howard, 79n.5, 80n, 94, 208n.14

Body: in creation stories, 17-18, 36-38

of feminized male, 215-18

grotesque, 197-98, 201-4, 205-6, 208-9, 217

as human essence, 5, 6, 34, 231

marking cultural difference, 1-4, 5-7

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