@Book{1007388366,
author="Rosenberg, Michael",
title="Signs of virginity: testing virgins and making men in late antiquity",
year="2018",
publisher="Oxford University Press",
address="New York",
keywords="Virginity; Religious aspects; Judaism; History of doctrines; Sex crimes; Masculinity; Christianity",
abstract="Virginity and violence in cross-cultural perspective -- Bloodied sheets: the biblical nuptial bed as rape scene -- ``Trustworthy women'' and other witnesses: tweaking Deuteronomy in pre-rabbinic and early rabbinic Judaism -- Doubts and faith: possible alternatives in three first century Jewish authors -- Struck by wood, struck by God: virginity beyond and despite anatomy in the Protevangelium of James, the Mishnah, and late antique Syriac poetry -- Open doors and accused brides: subjectivity and a new standard for virginity testing in rabbinic Babylonia -- Impure nuptials and sex as work: the Bavli's attempted divorce of virginity from violence -- (de)mythologizing the hymen: Augustine, the Bavli, and the rejection of force",
note="Michael Rosenberg",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9780190845896",
language="English"
}