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Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (Updated Edition) by Daniel Boyarin Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-520-20336-4 / 0520203364 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20336-5 / 9780520203365 Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism―that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church―Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of C |