Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The whole body: Israelite perceptions of corporeal existence
  • Sexuality and fertility: constructing the household of the body
  • Boundaries of the body: sexuality outside the household
  • The stages of the body: constructions of the aging process
  • Foreign bodies: reactions against the stranger
  • The body of the temple: priests and the religious regulation of the body
  • Intercourse with the world: Hellenism and the incorporation of Judaism.