Two Rabbinic Inclinations? Rethinking a Scholarly Dogma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10906296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ishay Rosen-Zvi (0000-0003-0921-6679, 1Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 513-539 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Judaism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2212 • E-ISSN: 1570-0631 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006308x315164 |
| OpenAlex | W1996649198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The scholarly consensus on the Rabbinic concept of the yetzer (inclination) takes for granted the existence of two yetzarim, good and evil, in every person. Some have noticed the marginality of the good yetzer in rabbinic discourse, as well as the fact that most sources discuss only one yetzer, but ascribed it to the inherent imbalance of power between the two yetzarim. In this paper I wish to rethink this scholarly consensus, while taking the single-yetzer model, which appears in almost all rabbinic sources, seriously. A systematic analysis of all rabbinic references to the yetzer, which attempts to distinguish as much as possible between sources, both chronologically (early or late), and geographically (Palestinian or Babylonian), yields a picture markedly different from the common view, and helps locate the (rather marginal) place of the two yetzarim in context of the rabbinic corpus in its entirety
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| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |