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Making sense of sex : attitudes towards sexuality in early Jewish and Christian literature
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Title
Making sense of sex : attitudes towards sexuality in early Jewish and Christian literature / William Loader.
ISBN
9780802870957 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0802870953 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2013]
Physical Description
vii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 03, 2013
Series
Attitudes to sex in early Jewish and Christian literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. In the beginning
In the beginning according to Genesis 1
In the beginning according to Genesis 2
In the beginning according to Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium
Sexual union and social reality
Change for the worse
Retelling the creation story in the Book of Jubilees
Becoming one flesh
Becoming one flesh in Jesus and Paul
The creation stories in Greek
Interpreting the Greek text
The myth of the watchers and the beginning of evil
The watcher myth in later literature
In the beginning?
2. Households
Households and livelihood
Marriages and households
Arranging marriages
Limitations
Marrying
Before marriage
Sex and the household
Polygyny
Inheritance
Incest
Love and marriage
Conception and pregnancy
Public affairs of the household
Adultery and forbidden liaisons
Adultery and divorce
3. Sacred space
Dealing with impurity
Purity and the Temple
Against intermarriage with foreigners
For intermarriage with foreigners
Holiness beyond the Temple and sexual abstinence
Sex and the future
Celibacy now and then
4. Passions and persons
Living in the Hellenistic world
Finding common ground
Managing sexual passion
Prostitution
Confornting the dangers
Merging Greek and Jewish wisdom on the passions
Out of control
Eunuchs
The flesh
Celebrating sexuality
Attacking perversion.
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