Religion vs. Science: The coping of Medieval and modern Rabbis (XIX-XXIst Centuries) with the Question of the Existence of the Talmudic "Evolutionary Mouse"

The current paper focusses on the identifications and the approaches of the medieval and modern halakhic authorities to the existence of the Talmudic "evolutionary mouse" (a mouse that is half flesh and half earth). Rashi believed that this was a squirrel, and R. Israel Lipschuetz tried to...

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Main Author: Shemesh, Avraham Ofir 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2021
In: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2021, Volume: 20, Issue: 58, Pages: 18-35
Further subjects:B R. Yosef Kapach
B spontaneously generating
B R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
B evolutionary mouse
B Judaism
B R. Israel Lipschuetz
B R. Ovadia Yosef
B modern halakhic authorities
B jerboa
B ancient zoological knowledge
B omne vivum ex vivo
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