The Thigh of Its Mother: The Fetus and the Subordinated Subject in the Babylonian Talmud
Modern discussions of abortion in Jewish thought often invoke the Talmudic phrase "ubar yerekh imo," the fetus is the thigh of its mother. This article examines the ten instances in which the phrase first appears in the Babylonian Talmud. I demonstrate that the rabbis of Late Antique Sasan...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 4, Pages: 1010-1025 |
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