The Reproduction of Species: Humans, Animals and Species Nonconformity in Early Rabbinic Science

Tracing an early rabbinic approach to the human, this article analyzes how the Tannaim of the Mishnah and Tosefta set the human side by side with other species, and embedded their account within broader considerations of reproduction, zoology and species crossings. The human here emerges at the inte...

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Main Author: Neis, Rachel 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Mohr Siebeck [2017]
In: Jewish studies quarterly
Year: 2017, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 289-317
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
NCF Sexual ethics
TF Early Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Bodily Variation Likeness Rabbinic science of reproduction Species
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