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Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality

Michael Satlow
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  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Publishers' Preface
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Introduction
    • A. Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion
    • B. Using Rabbinic Documents
    • C. Assumptions about Sexuality
    • D. Sources and Conventions
      • 1. Terms
        • (1) Tannaitic Documents
        • (2) Talmudim
  • II. Incest
    • A. Rhetoric of Definition
      • 1. Forbidden Liaisons
        • (1) Incest and Marriage
          • (a) Example 1: The Raped and Seduced Woman
          • (b) Example 2: "A Woman and Her Daughter"
          • (c) Conclusions
        • (2) Prohibited Sexual Partners
          • (a) Who is Forbidden
          • (b) Reasons for the Prohibitions
            • i. Arguments from Scripture
            • ii. Logical Argumentation
            • iii. Arguments from Appearances
            • iv. Arguments based on Sociological Factors
            • v. Conclusions
        • (3) Proselytes and Gentiles
      • 2. Defining Act
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 4. Conclusions
    • B. Rhetoric of Categorization
      • 1. Origin
      • 2. Punishments
        • (1) Tannaitic Sources
        • (2) Talmudim
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 4. Conclusions
    • C. Rhetoric of Liability
      • 1. Determination of the Transgression
        • (1) Tannaitic Sources
        • (2) Talmudim
      • 2. Mitigating Circumstances
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • D. Rhetoric of Progeny of Forbidden Liaisons
      • 1. Mamzer: Legal Status
        • (1) Tannaitic Sources
        • (2) Talmudim
      • 2. Mamzer: Social Stigma
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 4. Conclusions
    • E. Rhetoric of Association
      • 1. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • F. Rhetoric of Defining the Other
      • 1. Defining Gentiles
      • 2. Defining the Evil Jew
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • G. Rhetoric of Apologetics
      • 1. Cain
      • 2. Yo'abed and Amram; Sarah and Abraham
      • 3. Reuben
      • 4. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 5. Conclusions
    • H. Rhetoric of Temptation
      • 1. Yi'ud: The Prohibition on Seclusion
      • 2. "Nature" and Sinai
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 4. Conclusions
    • I. Divine Punishment
      • 1. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • J. Conclusions
  • III. Sex Between Jews and Gentiles
    • A. Rhetoric of Definition
    • B. Rhetoric of Progeny
      • 1. Jewish Woman and Gentile Man
        • (1) Tannaitic Sources
        • (2) Yerushalmi
        • (3) Bavli
      • 2. Jewish Man and Gentile Woman
        • (1) Legal Status
        • (2) Affronts to God
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 4. Conclusions
    • C. Rhetoric of Defilement and Prohibition
      • 1. Men
        • (1) Tannaitic Sources
        • (2) Yerushalmi
        • (3) Bavli
      • 2. Women
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • D. Rhetoric of Divine Retribution
      • 1. Personal Retribution
      • 2. Communal Retribution
    • E. Rhetoric of Association
    • F. Rhetoric of Apologetics
      • 1. Moses
      • 2. Solomon
      • 3. Samson
      • 4. Esther
      • 5. Conclusions
    • G. Rhetoric of Temptation
    • H. Rhetoric of Threat
      • 1. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • I. Conclusions
  • IV. Non-Marital Sex
    • A. Rhetoric of Definition
      • 1. "Bî'lat zênut"
        • (1) Non-Marital Intercourse
        • (2) Non-Procreative Intercourse
        • (3) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
        • (4) Conclusions
      • 2. Defining Act
        • (1) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • B. Rhetoric of Categorization
      • 1. Intercourse with a Married or Betrothed Woman
      • 2. Woman, Maiden, Minor
      • 3. Authority
      • 4. Priest's Daughter
      • 5. Seduction and Rape
        • (1) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 6. Summary
    • C. Rhetoric of Liability
    • D. Rhetoric of Impurity
    • E. Rhetoric of Progeny
    • F. Rhetoric of Association
      • 1. Adultery
        • (1) Association with Theft
        • (2) Shame
      • 2. Other Forms of Non-Marital Sex
        • (1) Witchcraft
    • G. Rhetoric of the Other
      • 1. Licentiousness
      • 2. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • H. Rhetoric of Divine Retribution
    • I. Rhetoric of Temptation
      • 1. Women as Daughters
      • 2. Women as Wives
      • 3. Rhetoric of Women as Temptresses and Seductresses
        • (1) Female Sexual Desire
        • (2) Male Sexual Desire
        • (3) The Temptress
        • (4) Controlling Desire
      • 4. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 5. Conclusions
    • J. Rhetoric of Threat
      • 1. Legal Penalties
        • (1) Prohibition of an Adultress
        • (2) Economic Penalties
        • (3) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 2. Rhetoric of Threat
        • (1) Public Display
        • (2) Humiliation
        • (3) "Measure for Measure"
          • (a) Adulteresses
          • (b) Adulterers
            • i. Tannaitic Sources
            • ii. Yerushalmi
            • iii. Bavli
            • iv. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • K. Summary and Conclusions
  • V. Homoeroticism
    • A. Rhetoric of Definition
      • 1. Prohibited Partners
        • (1) Hermaphrodites
          • (a) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
        • (2) Female Homoeroticism
          • (a) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 2. The Defining Act
    • B. Rhetoric of Categorization
    • C. Rhetoric of Liability
      • 1. Active and Passive Male Lovers
      • 2. Age
      • 3. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • D. Rhetoric of Association
      • 1. Vice-Catalogues
        • (1) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 2. Bestiality
    • E. Rhetoric of the Other
      • 1. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • F. Rhetoric of Divine Retribution
      • 1. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • G. Rhetoric of Temptation
      • 1. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • H. Passivity/Activity, Female/Male
      • 1. Passivity
        • (1) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
      • 2. Activity and Power
        • (1) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • I. Conclusions
  • VI. Non-Procreative Sex
    • A. Non-Procreative Liaisons
      • 1. Sex with an Infertile Woman
        • (1) Levirate Marriage
        • (2) Sotah Ordeal
        • (3) Mistaken Marriage
        • (4) Licentiousness
      • 2. Sex with an Infertile Man
      • 3. Conclusions
    • B. Family Planning
      • 1. Contraceptive Sponge (Mok)
      • 2. Oral Contraception
      • 3. Coitus Interruptus and Anal Intercourse
        • (1) Bi2ah Shel2o kedarkah
        • (2) "Overturning the Table"
      • 4. Other Non-Procreative Sexual Activities
      • 5. Abstinence and Child Abandonment
      • 6. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • C. Wasted Seed
      • (1) Tannaitic Sources
      • (2) Amoraic Dicta
      • (3) Redactorial
      • (4) Summary
      • 1. Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • D. Conclusions
  • VII. Marital Sexuality
    • A. Sexual Obligations Between Husband and Wife
      • 1. Female Sexual Rights
        • (1) The 3Onah
          • (a) Tannaitic Traditions
          • (b) Yerushalmi
          • (c) Bavli
        • (2) Sex on Friday Night
        • (3) Other Discussions of Female Conjugal Rights
      • 2. A Husband's Right to Sex
        • (1) Economic Penalties for Refusal of Sex
        • (2) Marital Rape
      • 4. Reasons for Sexual Rights and Obligations
        • (1) "Happiness"
        • (2) Procreation
        • (3) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • B. Marital Sexual Behavior
      • 1. Niddah
      • 2. Modesty
        • (1) Sex in the Light
          • (a) Non-Rabbinic Parallels
    • 3. Rhetorics of Eugenics
      • (1) Palestinians and Babylonians
    • C. Conclusions
  • VIII. Conclusions
    • A. Assumptions: Toward a History of Rabbinic Sexuality
      • 1. The Nature of Sex and Gender Expectations
      • 2. Marital and Non-Marital Sexuality
      • 3. Sexual Desire
    • B. Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality
      • 1. Legal Rhetorics
      • 2. Non-Legal Rhetorics
    • C. Implications for Future Research
      • 1. Implications for the Study of Rabbinic Literature
      • 2. Hellenism and the Rabbis
      • 3. Rhetoric and Reality
      • 4. Gender Relations
  • Bibliography
  • Source Index
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Published: 1995
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-946527-52-3 (PDF)
  • 978-1-946527-31-8 (ebook)
Subject
  • Religion
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