Carnal Isræl: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (120 page)

See also
Androgyne myth; Human being

Manual of Discipline,
70

Marriage: Babylonian Judaism on, 48-49, 140-41, 156, 158-59, 164-66

celibate, 136, 141n, 159, 160-65, 167-68

Christian view of, 40-42

competing with Torah, 134-35, 138-42, 147-50, 162, 165-66, 196

God's participation in, 104-5

male sexual obligation in, 142-46, 150n.29

Palestinian Judaism on, 48, 141-42, 156-58, 159, 162-64, 165

Rabbis' absence during, 142-51, 155-56, 241

sexuality's value in, 35, 44-49, 53-54, 106

sexual practices in, 109-13

shepherd-ewe metaphor of, 152-53

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