Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture Book

So far so good. He doesn't understand key Christian Dogmas at times but it's okay, I wouldnt expect him to entirely, and still welcome many of his great critiques. (Fr Behr, Patricia Jung, Philip LeMasters, Dr Guroian, Thatcher, Richard Davidson, Frederickson and co offer correctives to his writing-off of the Christian Tradition, St Paul and the Incarnation.)

However, there is much good in the Rabbinic Tradition, that we Christians could and should benefit from, as Boyarin shows. This could and should be juxtaposed with a more well-rounded look at the place of Marriage and sexuality in Christian Tradition up to and including our time.

This work certainly helps in rooting ideas we take for granted about sexuality, in historical context.
By doing so, this could help Christians correct those in our tradition who erroneously put celibacy over and against Marriage and Sex, in ultimate ways. To continue to do this would be a failure to the Scriptures, the Church and the Kingdom of God.

A key insight from reading Boyarin, is that we need to move beyond the crudely dualist and allegorical reading of scripture which has indeed had an unfortunate impact on our exegesis. (This doesnt fit with the nature of the Liturgical life as Schmemann shows, with Scripture as Eugene Peterson expresses, Perichoresis as Leithart illuminated, or with the Transfiguring thrust of Orthodox Christian Trinitarian Theology, as Fr Behr, Louth or Staniloae show.)

...Intelligent and enjoyable reading on an important yet grossly underdeveloped aspect of Judeo-Christian life. Patricia Jung has recently written a book which places some of these important issues into the context of Eschatology. This is both fantastic and necessary. Christianity needs a typological and Liturgical approach to sexuality, to avoid the twisted abstractness of 'allegory'. Books like this one can help us alongside those others mentioned, thank God.