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Gwynn Kessler - Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives - 9780812241754 - V9780812241754
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Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives

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Description for Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives Hardback. Kessler shows how the rabbis of the third through sixth centuries turned to non-Jewish writings on embryology and procreation to explicate the biblical insistence on the primacy of God's role in procreation at the expense of the biological parents. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.

In Conceiving Israel, Gwynn Kessler examines the peculiar fascination of the rabbis of late antiquity with fetuses—their generation, development, nurturance, and even prenatal study habits—as expressed in narrative texts preserved in the Palestinian Talmud and those portions of the Babylonian Talmud attributed to Palestinian sages. For Kessler, this rabbinic speculation on the fetus served to articulate new understandings of Jewishness, gender, and God. Drawing on biblical, Christian, and Greco-Roman traditions, she argues, the rabbis developed views distinctive to late ancient Judaism.
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812241754
SKU
V9780812241754
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About Gwynn Kessler
Gwynn Kessler teaches religion at Swarthmore College.

Reviews for Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives
"A significant contribution to the reconstruction of rabbinic culture in late antiquity."
Denise Kimber Buell, Williams College

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