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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Beth A. BerkowitzPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781108423663ISBN 10: 1108423663 Pages: 234 Publication Date: 19 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Animal intelligence; 3. Animal morality; 4. Animal suffering; 5. Animal danger; 6. Animals as live/stock; 7. Conclusion.Reviews'... the book is essential reading for all future work on rabbinic texts engaged with the concerns of animal studies and a major contribution from Jewish studies to both animal studies and the study of religion as such.' Aaron Gross, Reading Religion '... this book is an invitation to take joy in learning Talmud as well as the disparate works of animal studies with which Berkowitz engages.' Alexander M. Weisberg, AJS Review Author InformationBeth A. Berkowitz is Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College, New York. She is author of Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures (2006, winner of the Salo Baron Prize for First Book in Jewish Studies) and Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge, 2012). She is also co-editor of Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation (forthcoming). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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