TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenberg, Michael
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Signs of virginity: testing virgins and making men in late antiquity
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - New York
KW  - Virginity
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Sex crimes
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Christianity
AB  - 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
SN  - 9780190845896
LA  - English
N1  - Michael Rosenberg
ID  - 1007388366
ER  -