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Marital relations in ancient Judaism / Étan Levine.

Title: Marital relations in ancient Judaism / Étan Levine.
Author: Levine, Étan
Publication: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2009.

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Description

xiv, 349 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte ; Bd. 10

Uniform Title

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte Bd. 10.

Subject

Marriage > Religious aspects > Judaism > History of doctrines
Sex > Religious aspects > Judaism > History of doctrines
Judaism > Doctrines > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-346) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: Introduction to a people -- Kinship and law in biblical Israel -- The home as a 'small temple' -- On gender and legal status -- Love as a legal construct -- Validating human eroticism -- Free will, law and the moral imperative -- Woman as sexual suspect -- Sexual relations in marriage law -- The time to refrain from embracing -- Love's body : anticipation and idealization -- Lawful conjugality : the loving embrace -- Children : married life and eternal life -- Epilogue.

ISBN

3447058684 (hd.bd.)
9783447058681 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

311818809
SCSB-12386263

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Harvard Library