Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

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2009
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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.

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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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published: 30 Jun 2009
ISBN 10: 0812241754
ISBN 13: 9780812241754

Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

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$78.32

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$78.32

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