Signs of Virginity Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity 1st Edition by Michael Rosenberg 0190845899 9780190845896

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ISBN-10 :  0190845899 

ISBN-13 :  9780190845896

Author:  Michael Rosenberg 

Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman’s purity; it seldom, if ever, appears outside of Abrahamic traditions. In Signs of Virginity, Michael Rosenberg examines the history of virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to a culture that encourages male sexual violence. Deuteronomy’s violent vision of virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since. However, Rosenberg points to two authors-the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud and the early Christian thinker Augustine of Hippo-who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female virginity, nonetheless attempt to subvert the emphasis on sexual dominance bequeathed to them by Deuteronomy. Unlike the authors of earlier Rabbinic and Christian texts, who modified but fundamentally maintained and even extended the Deuteronomic ideal, the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine both construct alternative models of female virginity that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity. Indeed this vision of masculinity as fundamentally gentle, rather than characterized by brutal and violent sexual behavior, fits into a broader idealization of masculinity propagated by both authors, who reject what Augustine called a “lust for dominance” as a masculine ideal.

Signs of Virginity: Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Testing Virginity in the Body
1. Virginity and Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
2. Bloodied Sheets: The Biblical Nuptial Bed as Rape Scene
3. “Trustworthy Women” and Other Witnesses: Tweaking Deuteronomy in Pre-Rabbinic and Early Rabbinic Judaism
Part II. Testing Virginity through Faith
4. Doubts and Faith: Possible Alternatives in Three First-Century Jewish Authors
5. Struck by Wood, Struck by God: Virginity Beyond/Despite Anatomy
Part III. Subjecting Virginity
6. Open Doors and Accused Brides: Subjectivity and a New Standard for Virginity Testing in Rabbinic Babylonia
7. Impure Nuptials and Sex as Work: The Bavli’s Attempted Divorce of Virginity from Violence
8. (De)Mythologizing the Hymen: Augustine, the Bavli, and the Rejection of Force

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