The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature
Overview
In this volume, William Loader investigates a diverse collection of more than 40 Jewish apocryphal and pseudepigraphal writings and fragments composed between the third century BC and the end of the first century AD. Judith, Tobit, 2 Enoch, Susannah—these and many other writings reveal a complex amalgam of attitudes and mores related to sexuality in early Jewish culture. Loader analyzes each book or fragment in its own literary context and draws out significant trends and themes that run through the entire corpus, offering rich reflection on sexuality during that period.
Interested in early Jewish and Christian culture? Be sure to check out the Sexuality in Early Judaism and Christianity Collection (7 vols.).
- Offers a rich reflection on sexuality from the early Jewish culture
- Investigates more than 40 Jewish apocryphal and pseudepigraphal writings and fragments
- Analyzes each book or fragment in its own literary context
- Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, and Related Writings
- Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Histories, Legends, and Related Writings
- Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Psalms, Wisdom Writings, and Fragmentary Works
This volume on Jewish Pseudepigrapha is a rich resource for anyone interested in the cultural sources of the positions on sexuality adopted by contemporary religious communities.
—Harold Attridge, Sterling Professor of Divinity, Yale Divinity School
- Title: The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature
- Authors: Ibolya Balla, William R. G. Loader
- Series: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 584
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Apocryphal books › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Sex › Religious aspects--Judaism; Sex › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780802866660, 0802866662
- Resource ID: LLS:PSDPGRPHSXLTY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:28:56Z
William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. In 2010, he completed a five-year Australian Research Council professional fellowship project: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era. Loader is the author of numerous books, including Sexuality in the New Testament: Understanding the Key Texts.