Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals : : The Talmud After the Humanities / / Mira Beth Wasserman.
In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Talmud's most scandalous tractate, to uncover the hidden architecture of this classic work of Jewish religious thought. She proposes a new way of reading the Talmud that brings it in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Sources, Usage, and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. The Sense of a Beginning
- 2. Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals
- 3. Leaky Vessels
- 4. Ethics and Objects
- 5. The Last Laugh
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments