The Passionate Torah : : Sex and Judaism / / ed. by Danya Ruttenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alpert, Rebecca T.,; Baskin, Judith R.,; Cohen, Aryeh,; Dorff, Elliot N.,; Fuchs, Esther,; Haberman, Bonna Devora,; Kukla, Elliot Rose,; Labovitz, Gail,; Landau, Melanie Malka,; Lev, Sarra,; Levitt, Laura,; Love Anderson, Wendy,; Meirowitz, Sara N. S.,; Michaelson, Jay,; Ner-David, Haviva,; Ruttenberg, Danya,; Seidman, Naomi,; Waskow, Arthur O.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ruttenberg, Danya,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In this unique collection of essays, some of today’s smartest Jewish thinkers explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality.In the last few decades a number of factors-post-modernism, feminism, queer liberation, and more-have brought di...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I-It: Challenges
• 1 Sotah
• 2 Prostitution
• 3 Divorcing Ba’al
• 4 The Sage and the Other Woman
• 5 Intermarriage, Gender, and Nation in the Hebrew Bible
• 6 Good Sex
• I-Thou: Relationships
• 7 The Erotics of Sexual Segregation
• 8 Reclaiming Nidah and Mikveh through Ideological and Practical Reinterpretation
• 9 The Goy of Sex
• 10 A Jewish Perspective on Birth Control and Procreation
• 11 Not Like a Virgin
• 12 Reconsidering Solitary Sex from a Jewish Perspective
• We-Thou: Visions
• 13 “Created by the Hand of Heaven”
• 14 Toward a New Tzniut
• 15 On the Religious Signifi cance of Homosexuality; or, Queering God, Torah, and Israel
• 16 Heruta’s Ruse
• 17 Love the One You’re With
• 18 Eden for Grown-Ups
• Glossary
• Contributors
• Index of Sources
• Subject Index