Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism

by Ethan Levine

Book cover: Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism

Extent: 349 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Jewish Studies

Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte

Series volume number: 10

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2009)

ISBN: 9783447058681

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $122.00

In stock

This volume surveys the legal and literary references to gender, sexuality and marital relations found in biblical sources and Rabbinic texts until the end of the Tamudic era (c. 600 C.E.). Subject areas include Israel’s familial historiography, kinship and law in biblical Israel, gender and status, judicial review of law, divine covenant and marriage covenant, conditions mandating divorce, monogamous and polygamous marriage, levirate surrogate marriage, endogamy and exogamy, marital choice, marriage and reproduction as religious imperatives, the home as a ‘small temple’, the marital writ for ontological security, emotional fidelity, the validation of eroticism, love’s body: idealization and aesthetics, denial of sexual responsibility as Judaism’s original sin, sexuality and dignity, conjugal rights and responsibilities, fertility and infertility, contraception and abortion, erotic and reproductive techniques, menstruation: The time to refrain from embracing, the suspected adulteress, children and eternity.

  • By (author) Ethan Levine