Yishai Kiel: 1 book
Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud
Christian and Sasanian Contexts in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian Talmud, Yishai Kiel explores rabbinic discussions of sex in light of cultural assumptions and dispositions that pervaded the cultures of late antiquity and particularly the Iranian world. By negotiating the Iranian context of the rabbinic discussion...
