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100 1 $aLaunderville, Dale.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002109030
245 10 $aCelibacy in the ancient world :$bits ideal and practice in pre-hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece /$cDale Launderville.
260 $aCollegeville, Minn. :$bLiturgical Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axli, 571 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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505 00 $gChapter One.$tSexual Restraint Within the Context of a Cosmic Household -- $tIsrael: A Summons to Covenantal Fidelity for Collective Integrity in Ezekiel 16 -- $tCollective Jerusalem: From Canaanite Foundling to Royal Wife of Yhwh -- $tAdulterous Jerusalem: Narcissistic Autonomy and an Excessive Sex Drive -- $tThe Punishment and Purgation of Defiled Jerusalem -- $tRestored Jerusalem: Shame over Past Infidelities -- $tSummary -- $tMesopotamia: A Vision for Communal Integrity in a Mythical Tradition -- $tGender and Collective Identity: Hierarchy versus Partnership -- $tChanneling the Sex Drive Toward the Creation of Community -- $tThe Holiness of Inanna/Ishtar: The Fixed Point for a Paradoxical Deity -- $tThe Dynamics of Boundary Formation in the Forging of Sexual Identity -- $tSummary -- $tGreece: Engaging Shared Emotion to Foster Wholeness Within the Polis -- $tFacing the Irrational Within Collective Existence -- $tThe Sex Drive Within the Cosmic Household as an Ambiguous Generative Force -- $tThe Sacred Character of Family Relationships -- $tOvercoming Tragedy Through Compassion and Commitment -- $tSummary -- $tSynthesis: Bodily Integrity in a Monolatrous Model Contrasted with That in a Polytheistic Model -- $tThe Expression of Collective Identity and the Maintenance of Integrity -- $tThe Sex Drive as a Form of Physical and Cultural Power -- $tThe Requirement of Sexual Constraint in the Encounter with the Holy -- $tThe Dynamics of Boundary Formation in the Forging of Sexual Identity -- $gChapter Two.$tIntermarriage: A Threat to the Household as the Enduring Matrix of Personal Identity? -- $tIsrael: Intermarriage as the Clash of Religious Cultures in Yehud -- $tEzra's Intrusive Leadership: A Paradoxical Form of Heroism -- $tThe Organic Character of the Israelite Household -- $tThe Pressure of the State System on the Household -- $tSummary -- $tMesopotamia: Intermarriage as an Element in the Evolution of Urban Culture -- $tThe Hero's Battle to Bring Genealogy and Local Tradition to a New Synthesis -- $tThe Organic Character of the Hereditary Mesopotamian Household -- $tImperial Pressure on the Mesopotamian Household in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods -- $tSummary -- $tGreece: Intermarriage as a Threat to Democratic Development in Athens -- $tPericles: A Champion of Democratic Athens on the Basis of Its Imperial Power -- $tProperty, Inheritance, and Intimacy Within the Greek Household -- $tCity-State and Household: Synergy or Compromise? -- $tSummary -- $tSynthesis: Maintaining the Cultural Integrity of the Household in Times of Transition -- $tPurging a Community to Maintain Traditional Values: A Manipulative Ideology or a Heroic Vision? -- $tProperty and Relationships: Two Constitutive Elements of the Embodied Character of the Household -- $tThe Incorporation of the Household into the City-State: A Pathway to Death or to Life After Death? -- $gChapter Three.$tSex and the Holy: Erotic Synergy or Warfare? -- $tErotic Experience: Its Basic Terminology in Ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece -- $tIsrael: The Challenge of Searching for the Source of Life in the Right Place -- $tYHWS as the Divine Husband and Father -- $tSex and Knowledge of the Divine: Compatible or Incompatible? -- $tEros and the Maintenance of the Sacred Boundaries of the Israelite Household -- $tSummary -- $tMesopotamia: Sexuality as a Life-force Spanning the Cosmos -- $tThe Role of the Erotic Within the Pantheon -- $tThe Relationship between Sex and Knowledge in the Epic of Gilgamesh -- $tEros and the Maintenance of the Sacred Boundaries of the Mesopotamian Household -- $tSummary -- $tGreece: Eros of the Body Versus Eros of the Soul -- $tEros: A God or a Demiurge Within the Ancient Greek World? -- $tEros as the Desire to Possess the Beautiful and the Good -- $tEros and the Maintenance of the Sacred Boundaries of the Greek Household -- $tSummary -- $tSynthesis: Transmuted Sex and the Erotic Desire for the Divine -- $tThe Presence and Function of the Erotic Within the Divine Realm -- $tThe Relationship Between Sex and Knowledge -- $tEros and the Sacred Boundaries of Person and Household -- $gChapter Four.$tVirginity and Chastity: Feminine Ideals Integral to the Patriarchal Household -- $tDefinition of Virginity -- $tIsrael. Virginity: Commitment to the Common Good or to the Patriarchal Good? -- $tVirginity as a Sign of Individual and Communal Integrity -- $tVirginity and Bodily Wholeness -- $tMale Sexual Constraint: An Understated Practice -- $tThe Purpose of the Sacrifice of Virginity -- $tSummary -- $tMesopotamia. Virginity: An Alternative Lifestyle Compatible with the Patriarchal Household -- $tThe Expectation of Premarital Virginity for Women -- $tProtection of a Wife or Daughter: The Ideal of Bodily Wholeness for Women -- $tAn Old Babylonian Community of Celibate Women: The Nadiatum of Sippar and Nippur -- $tMale Sexual Constraint: A Concern for Boundaries -- $tSummary -- $tGreece. Virginity: Negotiating an Ideal Within the Limits of the Human Condition -- $tThe Reception of the Prohibition of Premarital Sex for Women -- $tThe Ideal Virginity of the Goddesses Hestia, Athena, and Artemis -- $tSexual Defilement: The Violation of Communal and Personal Boundaries -- $tChastity and the Ideal of Male Virginity -- $tSummary -- $tSynthesis: The Role of Virginity in Maintaining Bodily Integrity -- $tThe Protection of Women and the Integrity of the Community -- $tPollution as "Matter Out of Place" and as Diminishment of Control -- $tGender Equity: Female Virginity Versus Male Constraint -- $tThe Patriarchal Household: An Institution Constrained by the Human Condition or a Source of Exploitation? -- $gChapter Five.$tComposite Guardian Figures: Tension at the Cosmic Junctures -- $tIsrael: Balancing of the Human, Bestial, and Divine Aspects of Life Through the Integration of Heart and Mind -- $tThe Primal Human in Ezekiel 28: The Composite Guardian Figure in Eden -- $tThe Asexual Primal Human in Genesis 2 as an Inadequate Image of the Divine -- $tEunuchs and Prohibited Mixtures in Ancient Israel -- $tSummary -- $tMesopotamia: Composite Mythic and Human Figures as Mediators of Integrative Divine Power -- $tMesopotamian Primordial Androgynous Figures as Symbols of the Unity of Humanity -- $tSocialization into the Categories of Sex and Gender -- $tComposite Figures as Guardians of Cosmic Junctures -- $tCultic Officials as Androgynous Boundary-Keepers -- $tEunuchs at the "Sacred" Boundaries of Palatial Culture in Assyria and Persia -- $tGuardian Figures and Magic -- $tSummary -- $tGreece: The Interplay of Mythic and Human Androgyny in Euripides' Bacchae -- $tDionysian Polarities: The Unfolding of the Amoral Life-force -- $tPentheus's Efforts to Control the Feminine -- $tPentheus's Androgyny Revealed -- $tMaenadic Madness and the Sacrifice of Pentheus -- $tSummary -- $tSynthesis: The Role of Composite Guardian Figures in the Integration of the Divine, the Human, and the Animal -- $gChapter Six.$tCelibacy as a Proleptic Death and a Quest for Transcendence -- $tIsrael: The Promise of Enduring Life Through God's Word -- $tThe Symbolic Character of Jeremiah's Celibacy -- $tThe Word of God: Educator of the Human Person Within the Cosmic Community -- $tThe Power of the Written Word Within the Politics of Piety -- $tSummary -- $tMesopotamia: Linguistic Protection Against the Power of Death -- $tThe Plight of Those Who Suffer Divine Abandonment -- $tThe Pursuit of Wisdom and the Confrontation with Death -- $tThe Development of the Role of the Scribe from Recorder to Scholar -- $tSummary -- $tGreece: The Embodied Soul in the Search for Truth that Promotes Justice and Happiness -- $tPlato's Vision for the Rule of Reason in Classical Athens -- $tThe Socratic-Platonic Educational Process -- $tAristotle: The Wise Ordering of Desire in the Rational Animal -- $tSummary -- $tSynthesis. Celibacy: Death to Oneself and the Rise of the Common Good -- $gChapter Seven.$tCommunion with the Real: The Goal of Celibacy -- $tErotic Poetry and the Encounter with the Divine -- $tThe Evocative, Sacramental Character of Erotic Love in the Song of Songs vis-a-vis Mesopotamian and Greek Parallels --
500 $a"A Michael Glazier book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 80 $tLove as Strong as Death (Song 8:6) in Light of the Cosmic Journeys of Gilgamesh and Odysseus -- $tSummary -- $tComparative Summary of Factors Giving Rise to Celibacy and Related Forms of Sexual Renunciation in Ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece -- $gChapter 1.$tSexual Restraint Within the Context of a Cosmic Household -- $tCollective Existence Personified as a Woman in a Patriarchal Culture -- $tEros Out of Control: Eros Without the Context of the Cosmic Household -- $tImpurity and the Experience of the Irrational -- $gChapter 2.$tIntermarriage: A Threat to the Household as the Enduring Matrix of Personal Identity? -- $tMaintenance of the Intergenerational Web of Relationships Within the Patriarchal Household -- $tCommunal Identity in the Face of Diversity and Competition for Resources -- $tImmortality in the Continuity of the Patriarchal Line -- $gChapter 3.$tSex and the Holy: Erotic Synergy or Warfare? -- $tThe Janus-character of Eros as a Defining Issue in the Divine-Human Relationship -- $tTransmuting Sexual Eros into Human-Divine Erotic Energy -- $gChapter 4.$tVirginity and Chastity: Feminine Ideals Integral to the Patriarchal Household -- $tCollective Responsibility for the Integrity of Family Relationships -- $tSafeguards for the Integrity of Personal and Communal Bodies -- $tMale Sexual Constraint: A Stepping-Stone to a Higher Goal -- $tThe Voice of Women on Virginity and Their Status in a Patriarchal Society -- $gChapter 5.$tComposite Guardian Figures: Tension at the Cosmic Junctures -- $tThe Imaginative Interplay of Polarities of Sex and Gender: An Exercise in Pragmatic World Construction -- $tServants on the Margin: Eunuchs as Protectors of the Common Good -- $tThe Challenge of Negotiating Rather Than Eliminating Boundaries -- $gChapter 6.$tCelibacy as a Proleptic Death and a Quest for Transcendence -- $tRadical Self-Denial and Truth Telling as Measures for Combating the Amorphous Power of Death -- $tSelf-Denial and the Search for the Divine -- $tSalvation Through Contemplation of Transcendent Truth -- $tConclusion. Celibacy Within the Cosmic Household: A Journey Beyond Death Through Love.
520 1 $a"Celibacy is a commitment to remain unmarried and to renounce sexual relations, for a limited period or for a lifetime. Such a commitment places an individual outside human society in its usual form, and thus questions arise: What significance does such an individual, and such a choice, have for the human family and community as a whole? Is celibacy possible? Is there a socially constructive role for celibacy?" "These questions guide Dale Launderville, OSB, in his study of celibacy in the ancient cultures of Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece prior to Hellenism and the rise of Christianity. Launderville focuses especially on literary witnesses, because those enduring texts have helped to shape modern attitudes and can aid us in understanding the factors that may call forth the practice of celibacy in our own time. Readers will discover how celibacy fits within a context of relationships, and what kinds of relationships thus support a healthy and varied society, one aware of and oriented to its cosmic destiny." ""This wide-ranging book situates virginity, chastity, and celibacy within the larger social structure of the patriarchal household in Mesopotamia, Israel, and Greece. Drawing out the understandings of human sexuality in these three pre-Hellenistic cultures, this probing study examines sexual òutliers,' such as the celibate prophet, Jeremiah. In this study, celibacy emerges as an effort to separate from customary social-sexual relations with a human partner in order to connect with the divine in a manner that would transcend death; it is, in other words, à proleptic death and a quest for transcendence.' The result is an understanding---and a concrete rationale for---the symbolic value of celibacy in the modern world: F̀or one committed to a celibate life such sexual discipline is a fundamental means of shaping the ascetic body into a symbol of enduring life in the cosmic community.' The result of this challenging book is a rethinking of sexual òutliers,' based on a learned examination of the very societies of antiquity that influenced Christian traditions of celibacy.""--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aJeremiah$c(Biblical prophet)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80067482
650 0 $aCelibacy$xHistory.
650 0 $aChastity$xHistory.
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