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Wrestling with God and men : homosexuality in the Jewish tradition
- Author
- Greenberg, Steven, 1956 June 19-
- Title
- Wrestling with God and men : homosexuality in the Jewish tradition / Steven Greenberg.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Updated ed.
- Published
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
- Description
- xii, 316 p. ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-302) and index.
- Contents
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- The birth of gender and desire
- The sons of God, Ham, and the Sodomites
- Leviticus
- Lesbian omissions
- Princely love
- Rabbinic heroes
- The queer Middle Ages
- The legal literature
- Rav Moshe and the problem of why
- The rationale of reproduction
- The rationale of social disruption
- The rationale of category confusion
- The rationale of humiliation and violence
- Admitting difference
- Welcoming synagogues
- Kinsey subjects
- Judaic attitudes on homosexuality. Sex customs in the Bible.