%0 Book
%T Signs of virginity: testing virgins and making men in late antiquity
%A Rosenberg, Michael
%D 2018
%I Oxford University Press
%C New York
%@ 9780190845896
%G English
%F 1007388366
%O Michael Rosenberg
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X 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
%L 296.7/4
%K Virginity
%K Religious aspects
%K Judaism
%K History of doctrines
%K Sex crimes
%K Masculinity
%K Christianity
%9 Text