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Signs of virginity : testing virgins and making men in late antiquity /

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Signs of Virginity examines virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to male sexual violence. Rosenberg points to two authors--Augustine of Hippo and the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud--who construct alternative models that, if...

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Main Author: Rosenberg, Micha'el, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Virginity > Religious aspects > Judaism > History of doctrines.
Sex crimes > Religious aspects > Judaism > History of doctrines.
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Judaism > History of doctrines.
Virginity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Sex crimes > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Virginité > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme > Histoire des doctrines.
Violence sexuelle > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme > Histoire des doctrines.
Masculinité > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme > Histoire des doctrines.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
30-600
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Virginity and violence in cross-cultural perspective
  • Bloodied sheets: the biblical nuptial bed as rape scene
  • "Trustworthy women" and other witnesses: tweaking Deuteronomy in pre-rabbinic and early rabbinic Judaism
  • Doubts and faith: possible alternatives in three first century Jewish authors
  • Struck by wood, struck by God: virginity beyond and despite anatomy in the Protevangelium of James, the Mishnah, and late antique Syriac poetry
  • Open doors and accused brides: subjectivity and a new standard for virginity testing in rabbinic Babylonia
  • Impure nuptials and sex as work: the Bavli's attempted divorce of virginity from violence
  • (de)mythologizing the hymen: Augustine, the Bavli, and the rejection of force.