Chapter 1. Sexual Subversions in the Bible

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE IX
4. INTRODUCTION: Dilemmas of Desire 1
5. Chapter 1. Sexual Subversions in the Bible 11
6. Chapter 2. Law and Desire in the Talmud 33
7. Chapter 3. Rabbinic Authority and Popular Culture in Medieval Europe 60
8. Chapter 4. Sensuality, Asceticism, and Medieval Jewish Philosophy 86
9. Chapter 5. Sexuality and Spirituality in the Kabbalah 101
10. Chapter 6. The Displacement of Desire in Eighteenth- Century Hasidism 121
11. Chapter 7. Eros and Enlightenment 149
12. Chapter 8. Zionism as an Erotic Revolution 176
13. Chapter 9. Sexual Stereotypes in American Jewish Culture 204
14. EPILOGUE: Creating Desire 228
15. NOTES 231
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED SECONDARY WORKS 295
17. INDEX 309