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Demonic Desires
2011
Overview
InDemonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept ofyetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity theyetzerrepresents a general tendency toward evil. Rather than the lower bodily part of a human, the rabbinicyetzeris a wicked, sophisticated inciter, attempting to snare humans to sin. The rabbinicyetzershould therefore not be read in the tradition of the Hellenistic quest for control over the lower parts of the psyche, writes Rosen-Zvi, but rather in the tradition of ancient Jewish and Christian demonology.
Rosen-Zvi conducts a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the some one hundred and fifty appearances of the evilyetzerin classical rabbinic literature to explore the biblical and postbiblical search for the sources of human sinfulness. By examining theyetzerwithin a specific demonological tradition,Demonic Desiresplaces theyetzerdiscourse in the larger context of a move toward psychologization in late antiquity, in which evil-and even demons-became internalized within the human psyche. The book discusses various manifestations of this move in patristic and monastic material, from Clement and Origin to Antony, Athanasius, and Evagrius. It concludes with a consideration of the broader implications of theyetzerdiscourse in rabbinic anthropology.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
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ISBN
0812243390, 9780812243390, 0812204204, 9780812204209
