| #2931695 in Books | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2011-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x1.00 x5.90l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 264 pages | ||||"Demonic Desires analyzes a crucial element of late antique Jewish religious thought, the concept of the yetzer hara. Rosen-Zvi aims to correct misplaced assumptions about the yetzer, in terms of both anachronistic readings of the rabbinic tradi
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 rabbinic yetzer is a wicked, sophisticated inci...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Demonic Desires: "Yetzer Hara" and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) | Ishay Rosen-Zvi. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
