Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature (Biblia.com)

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In Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature, William Loader examines writings from the Greco-Roman period, relating their perspectives on sex. Loader also engages with the academic discourse surrounding the writings, allowing for a thorough investigation of both the primary sources and the existing interpretations of the writings. Through...

ish and a word which means woman, a female human being: ishshah.11 The similarity underlines the connection between the two. In the story of Genesis 2 the sexual theme reappears. God declares that it is not good for the man to be alone: “I will make him a helper as his partner”.12 God then created the animals and brought them to the man to name. But that still left the man without a helper as his partner. It is then that God put the man to sleep, extracted a rib, made a woman out of it, and brought

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