Carnal Israel reading sex in Talmudic culture - Boyarin, Daniel (University of California Press, 1995)
"A Centennial book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and indexes
"Behold Israel according to the flesh": on anthropology and sexuality in late-antique Judaisms -- Dialectics of desire: "The evil instinct is very good" -- Different Eves: myths of female origins and the discourse of married sex -- Engendering desire: husbands, wives, and sexual intercourse -- Lusting after learning: the Torah as "the other woman" -- Studying women: resistance from within the male discourse -- (Re)producing men: constructing the rabbinic male body