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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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction. The Riddle, or: How Did the Evil Yetzer Become a Mighty King? --  |t Chapter 1. "The Torah Spoke Regarding the Yetzer": Tannaitic Literature --  |t Chapter 2. Yetzer and Other Demons: Patristic Parallels --  |t Chapter 3. Yetzer at Qumran: Proto-Rabbinic? --  |t Chapter 4. Coming of Age: Amoraic Yetzer --  |t Chapter 5. Refuting the Yetzer: The Limits of Rabbinic Discursive Worlds --  |t Chapter 6. Sexualizing the Yetzer --  |t Chapter 7. Weak Like a Female, Strong Like a Male: Yetzer and Gender --  |t Afterword. Toward a Genealogy of the Rabbinic Subject --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Subject Index --  |t Source Index --  |t Acknowledgments. 
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