Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity
(Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series)
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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,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812243390
ISBN13:9780812243390
Release Date:October 2011
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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