Conceiving Israel - The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives

Informationen zum Autor Gwynn Kessler teaches religion at Swarthmore College. Klappentext Kessler shows how the rabbis of the third through sixth centuries turned to non-Jewish writings on embryology and procreation to explicate the biblical insistence on the primacy of God's role in procreation at the expense of the biological parents. Zusammenfassung Kessler shows how the rabbis of the third through sixth centuries turned to non-Jewish writings on embryology and procreation to explicate the biblical insistence on the primacy of God's role in procreation at the expense of the biological parents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. The Torah of the Fetus Chapter 2. Covenantal Fetuses Chapter 3. And the Sons Struggled Chapter 4. Embryology as Theology Chapter 5. Reproductive Theology Epilogue Notes References Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Gwynn Kessler
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2009
• EAN: 9780812241754
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4175-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An; Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism