عنوان

Dynamics of Sexual Desire:

شماره

LA119015

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Dynamics of Sexual Desire:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Babylonian Rabbinic Culture at the Crossroads of Christian and Zoroastrian Ethics

نام نخستين پديدآور

Yishai Kiel

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The article examines the inherently dialectical view of sexuality reflected in Babylonian rabbinic culture, which differentiates the sexual act, consisting of the indivisible elements of procreation and sexual gratification, from notions of sexual desire. On the one hand, the Babylonian Talmud accentuates the relative role of both male and female sexual gratification in the sexual act, but, on the other hand, it expresses a pessimistic view of the sexual urge, which is reified as part and parcel of the demonic realm. This dialectical perception is resolved in Babylonian rabbinic culture through a paradoxical mechanism that seeks to extinguish sexual desire via marital sex. The article situates different aspects of this distinctive construction of sexual desire in the context of contemporaneous Christian and Zoroastrian views. First, the Babylonian rabbinic mechanism is contextualized with the Pauline view of marital sex as a therapy for those "aflame with passion" (1 Cor 7:9) and its reception in patristic literature. Second, the Babylonian rabbinic dialectic of sex and desire is viewed in the light of a similar bifurcated perception evident in the Pahlavi tradition: while Zoroastrianism advocated full-fledged marital relationships from its very inception, an important strand in the Pahlavi tradition expresses an ambiguous view of sexual desire, which is linked in various ways to the demonic sphere. The article examines the inherently dialectical view of sexuality reflected in Babylonian rabbinic culture, which differentiates the sexual act, consisting of the indivisible elements of procreation and sexual gratification, from notions of sexual desire. On the one hand, the Babylonian Talmud accentuates the relative role of both male and female sexual gratification in the sexual act, but, on the other hand, it expresses a pessimistic view of the sexual urge, which is reified as part and parcel of the demonic realm. This dialectical perception is resolved in Babylonian rabbinic culture through a paradoxical mechanism that seeks to extinguish sexual desire via marital sex. The article situates different aspects of this distinctive construction of sexual desire in the context of contemporaneous Christian and Zoroastrian views. First, the Babylonian rabbinic mechanism is contextualized with the Pauline view of marital sex as a therapy for those "aflame with passion" (1 Cor 7:9) and its reception in patristic literature. Second, the Babylonian rabbinic dialectic of sex and desire is viewed in the light of a similar bifurcated perception evident in the Pahlavi tradition: while Zoroastrianism advocated full-fledged marital relationships from its very inception, an important strand in the Pahlavi tradition expresses an ambiguous view of sexual desire, which is linked in various ways to the demonic sphere.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

364-410

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

47/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

Aphrahat

اصطلاح موضوعی

Babylonian Talmud

اصطلاح موضوعی

desire

اصطلاح موضوعی

Pahlavi literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Paul

اصطلاح موضوعی

sexuality

اصطلاح موضوعی

Zoroastrianism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Yishai Kiel

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700631-12340455

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y