Sexuality and law in the Torah / edited by Hilary Lipka and Bruce Wells.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipka, Hilary B., editor.

Wells, Bruce, editor.

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 675.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 675

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Sex.

Sex in rabbinical literature.

Sexual ethics.

Sex in the Bible.

Physical Description:

xviii, 325 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2020.

Summary:

"This book examines many of the laws in the Torah governing sexual relations and the often implicit motivations underlying them. It also considers texts beyond the laws in which legal traditions and ideas concerning sexual behavior intersect and provide insight into ancient Israel's social norms. The book includes extended treatments on the nature and function of marriage and divorce in ancient Israel, the variation in sexual rules due to status and gender, the prohibition on male-with-male sex, and the different types of sexualities that may have existed in ancient Israel. The essays draw on a variety of methodologies and approaches, including narrative criticism, philological analysis, literary theory, feminist and gender theory, anthropological models, and comparative analysis. They cover content ranging from the narratives in Genesis, to the laws of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, to later re-interpretations of pentateuchal laws in Jeremiah and texts from the Second Temple period. Overall, the book presents a combination of theoretical discussion and close textual analysis to shed new light on the connections between law and sexuality within the Torah and beyond."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Categories of sexuality indigenous to Biblical legal materials / David Tabb Stewart

The daughter sold into slavery and marriage / Pamela Barmash

Rachel's betrothal contract and the origins of contract law / F. Rachel Magdalene

Judah, Tamar, and the law of levirate marriage / Eryl W. Davies

On the beds of a woman : the Leviticus texts on same-sex relations reconsidered / Bruce Wells

The offense, its consequences, and the meaning of [znh] in Leviticus 19:29 / Hilary Lipka

Priestly marriage restrictions / Sarah Shectman

The inheritance injunction of Numbers 36: Zelophehad's daughters and the intersection of ancestral land and sex regulation / M.L. Case

Reproducing Torah : human and divine sexuality in the book of Deuteronomy / Steffan Mathias

Divorce in archaic Crete : comparative perspectives on Deuteronomy 24:1-4 / Anselm C. Hagedorn

Divorce instruction and covenantal unfaithfulness : a new examination of the reuse of Deuteronomy 24:1-4 as metaphor in Jeremiah 3:1-10 / Kenneth Bergland

Sexual relations and the transition from holy people to human sanctuary in Second Temple times / Hannah K. Harrington.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780567681591

0567681599

OCLC:

1110443451