Format:
xiv, 311 Seiten
ISBN:
9780190845896
Content:
Virginity and violence in cross-cultural perspective -- Bloodied sheets: the biblical nuptial bed as rape scene -- "Trustworthy women" and other witnesses: tweaking Deuteronomy in pre-rabbinic and early rabbinic Judaism -- Doubts and faith: possible alternatives in three first century Jewish authors -- Struck by wood, struck by God: virginity beyond and despite anatomy in the Protevangelium of James, the Mishnah, and late antique Syriac poetry -- Open doors and accused brides: subjectivity and a new standard for virginity testing in rabbinic Babylonia -- Impure nuptials and sex as work: the Bavli's attempted divorce of virginity from violence -- (de)mythologizing the hymen: Augustine, the Bavli, and the rejection of force
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190845902
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Rosenberg, Micha'el, 1978- author Signs of virginity New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Language:
English
Keywords:
Augustinus, Aurelius Heiliger 354-430
;
Frühchristentum
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Bibel Deuteronomium
;
Jungfräulichkeit
;
Judentum
;
Rabbinische Literatur
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