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Sacred secrets : the sanctity of sex in Jewish law and lore / Gershon Winkler.
LIBRA BM496.9.S48 W56 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winkler, Gershon, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex in rabbinical literature.
- Sex in the Bible.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Sex.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 152 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, [1998]
- Summary:
- This book focuses on human sexuality in Jewish law and includes the first and only English translation of the controversial responsum of the eighteenth-century rabbi, Yaakov Emden, on the question of non-marital sex.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 076579974X
- OCLC:
- 36961065
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