Carnal Isræl: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (127 page)

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Authors: Daniel Boyarin

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Psychoanalytic discourse, 243-44
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Rabbah the son of Rav Huna, 126
Rabbinic Judaism: androcentrism of, 94, 100-101, 104-6, 168, 240, 244-45
ascetic sexuality in, 47-48, 56
as carnal, 1-2, 5, 29, 33-34, 42-43, 44-45, 106, 231, 233
as colonized culture, 16-17, 18
dialectical tradition of, 26-29, 64-67, 69, 74-75, 241-42
divided from Christians, 2-3, 5, 6-7, 17, 139-40, 232n.5
dualism resisted by, 5-6, 9, 29, 57, 63, 67, 232-33, 235
dualistic psychology of, 64, 66-67
eastern and western, 24-25
Evil Desire concept of, 62-67, 74-75
and Hellenism, 4-6, 7-8, 22, 31-32, 46-47, 77-78, 101-3, 231

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