Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud - Berkowitz, Beth A.
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For readers of religion, Judaism, and animal studies, Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud offers new perspectives on animals from the vantage point of the ancient rabbis. It selects key themes in animal studies - animal intelligence, morality, suffering, danger, and personhood - and explores their development in the Babylonian Talmud.

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For readers of religion, Judaism, and animal studies, Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud offers new perspectives on animals from the vantage point of the ancient rabbis. It selects key themes in animal studies - animal intelligence, morality, suffering, danger, and personhood - and explores their development in the Babylonian Talmud.
Autorenporträt
Beth A. Berkowitz is Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College, New York. She is author of Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures (2006, winner of the Salo Baron Prize for First Book in Jewish Studies) and Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge, 2012). She is also co-editor of Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation (forthcoming).