Celibacy in the Ancient World : Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece /

""This wide-ranging book situates virginity, chastity, and celibacy within the larger social structure of the patriarchal household in Mesopotamia, Israel, and Greece. Drawing out the understandings of human sexuality in these three pre-Hellenistic cultures, this probing study examines sex...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Launderville, Dale
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Jeremiah > (Biblical prophet)
Chastity > History.
Celibacy > History.
Sexuelle Abstinenz.
Ehelosigkeit.
Sexuelle Abstinenz
Ehelosigkeit
Chastity.
Celibacy.
Chastete > Histoire.
Griechenland (Altertum)
Alter Orient.
Israel (Altertum)
Griechenland > Altertum
Alter Orient
Israel > Altertum
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Sexual restraint within the context of a cosmic household
  • Intermarriage : a threat to the household as the enduring matrix of personal identity?
  • Sex and the holy : erotic synergy or warfare?
  • Virginity and chastity : feminine ideals integral to the patriarchal household
  • Composite guardian figures : tension at the cosmic junctures
  • Celibacy as a proleptic death and a quest for transcendence
  • Communion with the real : the goal of celibacy.

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