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Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud

By (author) Beth A. Berkowitz
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Published: 19th Apr 2018
Dimensions: w 159mm h 235mm d 18mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN-10: 1108423663
ISBN-13: 9781108423663
Barcode No: 9781108423663
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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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'... the book is essential reading for all future work on rabbinic texts engaged with the concerns of animal studies and a major contribution from Jewish studies to both animal studies and the study of religion as such.' Aaron Gross, Reading Religion '... this book is an invitation to take joy in learning Talmud as well as the disparate works of animal studies with which Berkowitz engages.' Alexander M. Weisberg, AJS Review