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Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover)
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Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover)
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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
conceptualizing animals and animality. She explores their
development in the Babylonian Talmud, showing how it is ripe for
reading with a critical animal studies perspective. When we do, we
find waiting for us a multi-layered, surprisingly self-aware
discourse about animals as well as about the anthropocentrism that
infuses human relationships with them. For readers of religion,
Judaism, and animal studies, her book offers new perspectives on
animals from the vantage point of the ancient rabbis.
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