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Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud : Christian and Sasanian Contexts in Late Antiquity by Yishai Kiel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud : Christian and Sasanian Contexts in Late Antiquity about?
Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian Talmud, Yishai Kiel explores rabbinic discussions of sex in light of cultural assumptions and dispositions that pervaded the cultures of late antiquity and particularly the Iranian world. By negotiating the Iranian context of the rabbinic discussion alongside the Christian backdrop, this groundbreaking volume presents a balanced and nuanced portrayal of the rabbinic discourse on sexuality and situates rabbinic discussions of sex more broadly a
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Yishai Kiel
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781316658802
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Christian, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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