Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud

This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Animal intelligence; 3. Animal morality; 4. Animal suffering; 5. Animal danger; 6. Animals as live/stock; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Berkowitz, Beth A Berkowitz, Beth A. Berkowitz, Berkowitz Beth A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108423663
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42366-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / General, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Animals & society, Animals and society, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts