TY - CHAP
T1 - Prostitution: myth and reality
AU - Artman-Partock, Tali
AU - Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Ruth
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel and Tali Artman Partock explore the development of the concepts “prostitute” and “prostitution” in the context of Jewish tradition and myth, and discuss the ways it affects our thought in current discourse. They argue that the literary persona of the prostitute represents the confusion between mythical and metaphorical use of the concept. The reality of prostitution results in an epistemological “black hole”, which serves both to humiliate and to divinize the prostitute in biblical, rabbinical, and Kabbalistic literature. Exploring examples from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Zohar, the authors challenge the common assumption regarding the glorification of the “mythical prostitute”. Concurrently, they draw connections between the Christian and Jewish messianic myth, and its influence on both the virginal conception of Mary and the “holy prostitute”.
AB - Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel and Tali Artman Partock explore the development of the concepts “prostitute” and “prostitution” in the context of Jewish tradition and myth, and discuss the ways it affects our thought in current discourse. They argue that the literary persona of the prostitute represents the confusion between mythical and metaphorical use of the concept. The reality of prostitution results in an epistemological “black hole”, which serves both to humiliate and to divinize the prostitute in biblical, rabbinical, and Kabbalistic literature. Exploring examples from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Zohar, the authors challenge the common assumption regarding the glorification of the “mythical prostitute”. Concurrently, they draw connections between the Christian and Jewish messianic myth, and its influence on both the virginal conception of Mary and the “holy prostitute”.
KW - Prostitution -- Biblical teaching
KW - Prostitution -- History
KW - Prostitution -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
U2 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431289
DO - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431289
M3 - فصل
SN - 9781138364585
T3 - Routledge Research in Gender and Society
SP - 125
EP - 146
BT - Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Women
A2 - Hertzog, Esther
A2 - Shadmi, Erella
PB - Routledge
ER -