Demonic Desires : : "Yetzer Hara" and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity / / Ishay Rosen-Zvi.
In Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the yet...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Riddle, or: How Did the Evil Yetzer Become a Mighty King?
- Chapter 1. "The Torah Spoke Regarding the Yetzer": Tannaitic Literature
- Chapter 2. Yetzer and Other Demons: Patristic Parallels
- Chapter 3. Yetzer at Qumran: Proto-Rabbinic?
- Chapter 4. Coming of Age: Amoraic Yetzer
- Chapter 5. Refuting the Yetzer: The Limits of Rabbinic Discursive Worlds
- Chapter 6. Sexualizing the Yetzer
- Chapter 7. Weak Like a Female, Strong Like a Male: Yetzer and Gender
- Afterword. Toward a Genealogy of the Rabbinic Subject
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Source Index
- Acknowledgments