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Traditional Jewish Sex Guidance: A History
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Evyatar Marienberg
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2022
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About this book
When Jews literate in Hebrew (a group that until recently was mostly men) wanted to learn from traditional Jewish sources how to behave in their conjugal bed, what did they find? Did the guidance differ between generations, places, or cultural contexts? How did thinkers in a tradition based on supposedly binding texts deal with changing sensibilities, needs, and realities in this intimate domain? This study explores sources from the Bible to contemporary publications, showing both stability and change in what Jews were instructed to do, or to avoid doing, when having sex with their spouse.
Author / Editor information
Evyatar Marienberg, Ph.D. (EHESS, Paris, 2002), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches both rabbinic Judaism and contemporary Catholicism.
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eBook published on:
July 25, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9789004519008
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Main content:
288
eBook ISBN:
9789004519008
Keywords for this book
Halakhah; Halacha; Rabbinics; Onah; Pru urvu; Marital sexuality; Jewish law; Haredi; Kabbalah; Maimonides; Rabad; Iggeret ha-Kodesh; Family purity; Shulkhan Arukh; Hasidic
Audience(s) for this book
People who are interested in Judaism and sexuality, rabbinics, and the history of sexual guidance.
