Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud: Christian and Sasanian contexts in late antiquity

Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian Talmud, Yishai Kiel explores rabbinic discussions of sex in light of cultural assumptions and dispositions that pervaded the cultures of late antiquity and particularly the Iranian world. By negotiating the Iranian context of the rabbinic discussi...

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Main Author: Kiel, Yishai 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2016.
In:Year: 2016
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Talmûd bavlî / Sexuality / Late Antiquity / Christianity / Zoroastrianism
Further subjects:B Sex Religious aspects Christianity
B Sex ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
B Sex in rabbinical literature
B Sex Religious aspects Zoroastrianism
B Sex ; Religious aspects ; Zoroastrianism
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Parallel Edition:Print version: 9781107155510