LEADER 04255nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910821334103321 005 20211004234959.0 010 $a1-283-89646-X 010 $a0-8122-0420-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204209 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064685 035 $a(OCoLC)822655753 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641577 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631062 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11392502 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631062 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591634 035 $a(PQKB)11639526 035 $a(OCoLC)794700772 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17952 035 $a(DE-B1597)449465 035 $a(OCoLC)979580594 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441742 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641577 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441742 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064685 100 $a20110314d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemonic desires $eyetzer hara and the problem of evil in late antiquity /$fIshay Rosen-Zvi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aDivinations : rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4339-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [135]-237) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. The Riddle, or: How Did the Evil Yetzer Become a Mighty King? --$tChapter 1. "The Torah Spoke Regarding the Yetzer": Tannaitic Literature --$tChapter 2. Yetzer and Other Demons: Patristic Parallels --$tChapter 3. Yetzer at Qumran: Proto-Rabbinic? --$tChapter 4. Coming of Age: Amoraic Yetzer --$tChapter 5. Refuting the Yetzer: The Limits of Rabbinic Discursive Worlds --$tChapter 6. Sexualizing the Yetzer --$tChapter 7. Weak Like a Female, Strong Like a Male: Yetzer and Gender --$tAfterword. Toward a Genealogy of the Rabbinic Subject --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tSubject Index --$tSource Index --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the yetzer represents a general tendency toward evil. Rather than the lower bodily part of a human, the rabbinic yetzer is a wicked, sophisticated inciter, attempting to snare humans to sin. The rabbinic yetzer should therefore not be read in the tradition of the Hellenistic quest for control over the lower parts of the psyche, writes Rosen-Zvi, but rather in the tradition of ancient Jewish and Christian demonology. Rosen-Zvi conducts a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the some one hundred and fifty appearances of the evil yetzer in classical rabbinic literature to explore the biblical and postbiblical search for the sources of human sinfulness. By examining the yetzer within a specific demonological tradition, Demonic Desires places the yetzer discourse in the larger context of a move toward psychologization in late antiquity, in which evil-and even demons-became internalized within the human psyche. The book discusses various manifestations of this move in patristic and monastic material, from Clement and Origin to Antony, Athanasius, and Evagrius. It concludes with a consideration of the broader implications of the yetzer discourse in rabbinic anthropology. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aYetzer hara (Judaism) 606 $aGood and evil$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aYetzer hara (Judaism) 615 0$aGood and evil$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 676 $a296.3/16 700 $aRosen-Zvi$b Ishay$01596169 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821334103321 996 $aDemonic desires$93917432 997 $aUNINA