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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipka, Hilary, editor.

Wells, Bruce, editor.

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 675.

The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 25138758 ; 675

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in the Bible.

Sex--Biblical teaching.

Sex.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Feminism.

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Homosexuality.

Sex--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : T & T Clark Ltd., 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:

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction Hilary Lipka and Bruce Wells

Chapter 1. Categories of Sexuality Indigenous to Biblical Legal Materials David Tabb Stewart

Chapter 2. The Daughter Sold into Slavery and Marriage Pamela Barmash

Chapter 3. Rachel's Betrothal Contract and the Origins of Contract Law F. Rachel Magdalene

Chapter 4. Judah, Tamar, and the Law of Levirate Marriage Eryl W. Davies

Chapter 5. On the Beds of a Woman: The Leviticus Texts on Same-Sex Relations Reconsidered

Bruce Wells

Chapter 6. The Offense, Its Consequences, and the Meaning of הנז in Leviticus 19:29 Hilary Lipka

Chapter 7. Priestly Marriage Restrictions Sarah Shectman

Chapter 8. The Inheritance Injunction of Numbers 36: Zelophehad's Daughters and the Intersection of Land Inheritance and Sex Regulation M. L. Case

Chapter 9. Reproducing Torah: Human and Divine Sexuality in the Book of Deuteronomy

Steffan Mathias Chapter 10. Divorce in Archaic Crete: Comparative Perspectives on Deuteronomy 24:1-4 Anselm C. Hagedorn

Chapter 11. 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

Chapter 12. Sexual Relations and the Transition from Holy People to Human Sanctuary in Second Temple Times Hannah Harrington

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780567681614

0567681610

9780567681607

0567681602

OCLC:

1139939224