Defining appropriate attitudes towards sexuality has always been an issue in Jewish-Christian polemic. Contemporary Jewish writers tend to boast of Judaism’s liberal attitude toward sexuality, while medieval Jewish polemicists were defensive when confronting Christian attacks on this matter. In ancient times, when sexual puritanism was less popular, Jewish theologians did not refrain from showing their contempt for the Christian value ​​of celibacy. This article proposes a new reading of the Talmudic legend about an argument between Joshua b. Karhah and a Christian eunuch. In this reading, the Christian figure stands for Origen, a Church father described in Christian sources as having castrated himself owing to a literal interpretation of the New Testament. In this reading, the debate summarizes the Talmudic rabbis’ perspective on the difference between Jewish and Christian views of sexuality.

定义对性的适当态度一直是犹太-基督教争论中的一个问题。当代犹太作家往往吹嘘犹太教对性的自由态度，而中世纪的犹太辩论家在面对基督教对这一问题的攻击时则持防御态度。在古代，当性清教不那么流行时，犹太神学家并没有表现出他们对基督教独身价值的蔑视。这篇文章提出了对塔木德传说关于约书亚 b 之间争论的新解读。Karhah 和一个基督教太监。在这篇读物中，基督教人物代表奥利金，一位在基督教资料中被描述为由于对新约的字面解释而阉割了自己的教父。在这次阅读中，