Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture by Eliezer Diamond

Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture

Eliezer Diamond

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion
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The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. This is in part because asceticism is commonly identified with celibacy, whereas the rabbis emphasized sexuality as a positive good....

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