Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ishay Rosen-ZviSeries:Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient ReligionPublish date:2011-10-13Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812243390ISBN-10:812243390UPC:9780812243390Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:History, TheologySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCYQD5EYES
Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity
In Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the yetzer represents a general tendency toward evil. Rather than the lower bodily part of a human, the...
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812243390ISBN-10:812243390UPC:9780812243390Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:History, TheologySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCYQD5EYES
Ishay Rosen-Zvi is Associate Professor of Hebrew Culture at Tel Aviv University, where he serves as the head of the Talmud and late antiquity section. He is also a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Studies.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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