Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives
(Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series)
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In Conceiving Israel, Gwynn Kessler examines the peculiar fascination of the rabbis of late antiquity with fetuses--their generation, development, nurturance, and even prenatal study habits--as expressed in narrative texts preserved in the Palestinian Talmud and those portions of the Babylonian Talmud attributed to Palestinian sages. For Kessler, this rabbinic speculation on the fetus served to articulate new understandings of Jewishness,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812241754
ISBN13:9780812241754
Release Date:September 2009
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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