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Signs of Virginity

Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity [Hardback]

by Michael Rosenberg

Author
Michael Rosenberg
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
March 2018

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Signs of Virginity examines virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to male sexual violence. Rosenberg points to two authors-Augustine of Hippo and the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud-who construct alternative models that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity, encouraging men to be gentle, rather than brutal, in their sexual behavior.