Signs of Virginity
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-084589-6 (ISBN)
Deuteronomy's violent vision of virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since, but Rosenberg points to two authors--the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine of Hippo--who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female virginity, nonetheless attempt to subvert the emphasis on sexual dominance bequeathed to them by Deuteronomy. Unlike the authors of earlier Rabbinic and Christian texts, who modified but fundamentally maintained and even extended the Deuteronomic ideal, the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine both construct alternative models of female virginity that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity. Indeed this vision of masculinity as fundamentally gentle, rather than characterized by brutal and violent sexual behavior, fits into a broader idealization of masculinity propagated by both authors, who reject what Augustine called a "lust for dominance" as a masculine ideal.
Michael Rosenberg is assistant professor of rabbinics at Hebrew College.
Introduction - Defining Virginity, Making Men
Part One: Testing Virginity in the Body
Chapter One - Testing Virginity in the Body
Chapter Two - Bloodied Sheets: The Biblical Nuptial Bed as Rape Scene
Chapter Three - "Trustworthy Women" and Other Witnesses: Tweaking Deuteronomy in Pre-Rabbinic and Early Rabbinic Judaism
Part Two: Testing Virginity through Faith
Chapter Four - Doubts and Faith: Possible Alternatives in Three First-Century Jewish Authors
Chapter Five - Struck by Wood, Struck by God: Virginity Beyond/Despite Anatomy
Part Three: Subjecting Virginity
Chapter Six - Open Doors and Accused Brides: Subjectivity and a New Standard for Virginity Testing in Rabbinic Babylonia
Chapter Seven - Impure Nuptials and Sex as Work: The Bavli's Attempted Divorce of Virginity from Violence
Chapter Eight - (De)Mythologizing the Hymen: Augustine, the Bavli, and the Rejection of Force
Epilogue
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.02.2018 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 239 x 165 mm |
Gewicht | 617 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-084589-9 / 0190845899 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-084589-6 / 9780190845896 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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