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Creating Judaism
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ISBN: 0231134894 0231134886 0231509111 128287196X 9786612871962 9780231509114 9780231134880 9780231134897 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting snapshots of Judaism from around the globe and throughout history, Satlow explores the links between vastly different communities and their Jewish traditions.


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Tasting the Dish : Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality
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ISBN: 1946527521 194652753X 1946527319 Year: 2020 Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

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This book sits at the intersection of two topics, rabbinic constructions of sexuality and the rhetoric that the rabbis of late antiquity used to promote their sexual mores. Satlow goes underneath the rabbinic legislation about secuality, asking how they understood sexuality - what assumptions about sexuality inform rabbinic dicta and law? The study also examines how these assumptions moved between Palestinian and Babylonian rabbinic communities and the kinds of arguments that the rabbis thought would be effective in promoting their legislation.

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Jewish Marriage in Antiquity
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ISBN: 0691187495 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Marriage today might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. Ancient Jews, like their non-Jewish neighbors, grappled with what have become perennial issues of marriage, from its idealistic definitions to its many practical forms to questions of who should or should not wed. In this book, Michael Satlow offers the first in-depth synthetic study of Jewish marriage in antiquity, from ca. 500 B.C.E. to 614 C.E. Placing Jewish marriage in its cultural milieu, Satlow investigates whether there was anything essentially "Jewish" about the institution as it was discussed and practiced. Moreover, he considers the social and economic aspects of marriage as both a personal relationship and a religious bond, and explores how the Jews of antiquity negotiated the gap between marital realities and their ideals. Focusing on the various experiences of Jews throughout the Mediterranean basin and in Babylonia, Satlow argues that different communities, even rabbinic ones, constructed their own "Jewish" marriage: they read their received traditions and rituals through the lens of a basic understanding of marriage that they shared with their non-Jewish neighbors. He also maintains that Jews idealized marriage in a way that responded to the ideals of their respective societies, mediating between such values as honor and the far messier realities of marital life. Employing Jewish and non-Jewish literary texts, papyri, inscriptions, and material artifacts, Satlow paints a vibrant portrait of ancient Judaism while sharpening and clarifying present discussions on modern marriage for Jews and non-Jews alike.


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Jewish Marriage in Antiquity
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ISBN: 9780691187495 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Tasting the dish : Rabbinic rhetorics of sexuality
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ISBN: 0788501593 Year: 1995 Publisher: Atlanta, GA : Scholars Press,

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The gift in antiquity
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ISBN: 9781444350241 Year: 2013 Volume: *8 Publisher: Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

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How the bible became holy
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ISBN: 9780300171914 Year: 2014 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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Religion and the self in antiquity
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ISBN: 9786612072680 1282072684 0253111714 9780253111715 9780253217967 0253217962 9780253346490 0253346495 0253217962 0253346495 Year: 2005 Publisher: Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press

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Many recent studies have argued that the self is a modern invention, a concept developed in the last three centuries. Religion and the Self in Antiquity challenges that idea by presenting a series of studies that explore the origins, formation, and limits of the self within the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world. Drawing on recent work on the body, gender, sexuality, the anthropology of the senses, and power, contributors make a strong case that the history of the self does indeed begin in an

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