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
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Beth A. Berkowitz, Animals and animality in the Babylonian Talmud] (2019) (Weisberg, Alexander M.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Talmûd bavlî
/ Animals
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| Summary: | This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Rembrandt's Ass -- Balaam's Ride -- Talking Animals -- Critical Animal Studies -- Animality -- Animality in the Talmud -- Microreading -- The Animal in Jewish, Religious, and Ancient Studies -- The Chapters -- Orientation to the Babylonian Talmud -- 2 Animal Intelligence -- Animals at the Edge -- Animal Minds -- Classical Philosophy on Animal Reason: "Elephants Employ Surgery" -- Animal Reason in the Mishnah -- Mishnah Bava Qamma 3:10: Slavery, Sabbath Observance, and Other Things Uniquely Human -- Palestinian Talmud Bava Qamma 3:10: The Needy Ox -- Babylonian Talmud Bava Qamma 34b-35a: The Clever Ox -- Conclusions: Animal Lessons -- 3 Animal Morality -- Trying Animals -- Bestiality, the Bible, and Bad Writing -- Can an Animal Sin? The Mishnah's Rhetorical Question -- The Question of Gentile Bestiality -- Rav Sheshet: Proximity to Sin -- Abaye: Gentile Moral Consciousness -- Rava: Animal Moral Consciousness -- God's (Sometime) Compassion for Animals -- The Unwitting Jew and Other Partial Subjectivities -- Conclusions: Animal Mirrors -- 4 Animal Suffering -- The Raccoon in the Kitchen -- Peter Singer and His Critics -- The Resting Donkey (Exodus 23:5) and the Exhausted Ox (Deuteronomy 22:4) -- Mishnah Bava Metzia 2:10: Sadistic, Sick, and Elderly Donkey Drivers -- Rava's Revolution -- The Talmud's Testing Grounds -- Conclusions: Competing Concerns, Law and Ethics, Slippery Slopes -- 5 Animal Danger -- Dangerous Animals -- Abnormal Oxen -- Wild Animals -- Animals in the House -- Bad Cats and Bad Rabbis -- Rabbis, Their Wives, and Their Animals -- Black and White World-Views -- Conclusions: Macho Rabbis and Queer Animal-Lovers -- 6 Animals as Livestock -- The Thingness of Animals -- The Personhood of Animals Travel Sukkahs in the Mishnah -- Animals as Architecture in Talmudic Traditions -- Flight and Death among the Rabbis: What Makes Animals Bad "Things" -- The Search for a Stable Sukkah -- Fantasies of Control in the Coda -- Conclusions: The Personhood of Things -- 7 Conclusion -- Animals and The Rabbinic Self -- Animals and the Rabbinic Other -- Disruptive Animals -- Works Cited -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1108542735 |