Demonic Desires: "Yetzer Hara" and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity

Table of Contents

C o n t e n t s introduction. The Riddle, or: How Did the evil Yetzer Become a Mighty King? 1 chapter 1. “The torah spoke Regarding the Yetzer”: tannaitic Literature 14 chapter 2. Yetzer and other Demons: Patristic Parallels 36 chapter 3. Yetzer at Qumran: Proto-Rabbinic? 44 chapter 4. coming of age: amoraic Yetzer 65 chapter 5. Refuting the Yetzer: The Limits of Rabbinic Discursive Worlds 87 chapter 6. sexualizing the Yetzer 102 chapter 7. Weak Like a Female, strong Like a Male: Yetzer and gender 120 afterword: toward a genealogy of the Rabbinic subject 127 notes 135 Bibliography 215 subject index 239 source index 243 acknowledgments 255 ...