Chapter 1. “The Torah Spoke Regarding the Yetzer”: Tannaitic Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. The Riddle, or: How Did the Evil Yetzer Become a Mighty King? 1
4. Chapter 1. “The Torah Spoke Regarding the Yetzer”: Tannaitic Literature 14
5. Chapter 2. Yetzer and Other Demons: Patristic Parallels 36
6. Chapter 3. Yetzer at Qumran: Proto-Rabbinic? 44
7. Chapter 4. Coming of Age: Amoraic Yetzer 65
8. Chapter 5. Refuting the Yetzer: The Limits of Rabbinic Discursive Worlds 87
9. Chapter 6. Sexualizing the Yetzer 102
10. Chapter 7. Weak Like a Female, Strong Like a Male: Yetzer and Gender 120
11. Afterword. Toward a Genealogy of the Rabbinic Subject 127
12. Notes 135
13. Bibliography 215
14. Subject Index 239
15. Source Index 243
16. Acknowledgments 255