Demonic desires : yetzer hara and the problem of evil in late antiquity / Ishay Rosen-Zvi.

This study examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination. Analyzing the some one hundred and fifty appearances of the yetzer in rabbinic literature, Rosen-Zvi contends that the term should not be read under the traditional rubric of sexual desire, but rather in the context of ancient Jewi...

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Main Author: Rosen-Zvi, Ishay
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Divinations.
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