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Record Number:
4389
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Title:
Eunuchs Who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism
Source:
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1997. Pages 151 - 185.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Chastity
Homoeroticism
Jews
Kabbalah, Jewish Theosophic Movement
Masculinity
Mystics
Sexuality
Zohar, Kabbalistic Work
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Geographic Area:
Iberia
Century:
13
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Abstract:
This study examines the nexus of asceticism and eroticism in the zoharic kabbalah. Renunciation of sexual power facilitated the spiritual empowerment of the male mystics. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing at http://www.garlandpub.com].
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Year of Publication:
1997.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815328362