Carnal Isræl: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (136 page)

Tertullian, 4n.7, 100, 103-4

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs,
68-69, 102

Theogony
(Hesiod), 84

Therapeutae sect, 39

Tobin, Thomas, 38

Torah-study: Babylonian position on, 138-39, 142, 143-44, 155-56, 169-70, 172, 174-79, 180-81, 194-95

in Beruria legend, 182, 186-87, 195-96

competing with marriage, 134-35, 138-42, 147-48, 149, 162, 165-66, 196

eroticism of, 65-66, 188

and female lasciviousness, 178-79, 188-89, 191-92

marriage required for, 139

merit derived from, 172, 173, 174-75, 177-78

Palestinian position on, 169-70, 172-74, 179, 180-81, 187-88, 192

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