The passionate Torah : sex and Judaism /
edited by Danya Ruttenberg.
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
- ix, 294 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
I-It: challenges: Sotah: Rabbinic pornography? / Prostitution: not a job for a nice Jewish girl / Divorcing Ba'al: the sex of ownership in Jewish marriage / The sage and the other woman: a Rabbinic tragedy / Intermarriage, gender, and nation in the Hebrew bible / Good sex: a Jewish feminist perspective / I-Thou: Relationships: The erotics of sexual segregation / Reclaiming Nidah and Mikveh through ideological and practical reinterpretation / The goy of sex: a short historical tour of relations between Jews and non-Jews / A Jewish perspective on birth control and procreation / Not like a virgin: talking about nonmarital sex / Reconsidering solitary sex from a Jewish perspective / We-Thou: Visions: "Created by the hand of Heaven": sex, love, and the androgynos / Toward a new Tznuit / On the religious significance of homosexuality; or, Queering God, Torah, and Israel / Heruta's ruse: what we mean when we talk about desire / Love the one you're with / Eden for grown-ups: toward a new ethic of Earth, of sex, and of creation / Danya Ruttenberg -- Sarra Lev -- Judith R. Baskin -- Bonna Devora Haberman -- Aryeh Cohen -- Esther Fuchs -- Melanie Malka Landau -- Naomi Seidman -- Haviva Ner-David -- Wendy Love Anderson -- Elliot N. Dorff -- Sara N. S. Meirowitz -- Rebecca T. Alpert -- Elliot Rose Kukla -- Danya Ruttenberg -- Jay Michaelson -- Gail Labovitz -- Laura Levitt -- Arthur O. Waskow. Introduction /