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Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud by Beth A. Berkowitz is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud about?
Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud selects key themes in animal studies - animal intelligence, morality, sexuality, suffering, danger, personhood - and explores their development in the Babylonian Talmud. Beth A. Berkowitz demonstrates that distinctive features of the Talmud - the new literary genre, the convergence of Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian cultures, the Talmud's remove from Temple-centered biblical Israel - led to unprecedented possibilities within Jewish culture for co
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Beth A. Berkowitz
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108438247
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Religion, Talmud
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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