Tasting the Dish : Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality / / Michael Satlow.

• Author: Brown University.
• VerfasserIn: Satlow, Michael,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown University.
• Place / Publishing House: Atlanta : : Scholars Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English; Hebrew
• Series: Brown judaic studies; 303
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

This book sits at the intersection of two topics, rabbinic constructions of sexuality and the rhetoric that the rabbis of late antiquity used to promote their sexual mores. Satlow goes underneath the rabbinic legislation about secuality, asking how they understood sexuality - what assumptions about sexuality inform rabbinic dicta and law? The study also examines how these assumptions moved between Palestinian and Babylonian rabbinic communities and the kinds of arguments that the rabbis thought would be effective in promoting their legislation.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Incest -- Sex Between Jews and Gentiles -- Non-Marital Sex -- Homoeroticism -- Non-Procreative Sex -- Marital Sexuality -- Conclusions.