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Making sense of sex : attitudes towards sexuality in early Jewish and Christian literature / William Loader.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loader, William R. G., 1944-
- Series:
- Attitudes to sex in early Jewish and Christian literature.
- Attitudes to sex in early Jewish and Christian literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. New Testament.
- Sex--Biblical teaching.
- Sex.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, Early.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2013]
- Summary:
- William Loader has long been studying ancient attitudes toward sex and sexuality. The fruit of his authoritative research and writing is here distilled into one summary volume. Book jacket.
- 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
- Confronting the dangers
- Merging Greek and Jewish wisdom on the passions
- Out of control
- Eunuchs
- The flesh
- Celebrating sexuality
- Attacking perversion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802870957
- 0802870953
- OCLC:
- 842877386
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