“Rafe’s book invites us to revisit what it meant in the rabbinic world to take care of another being, to rely on and be relied upon, and to be enmeshed with another being physically and psychically.”
Read MoreMoses Was an Animal, and Other Insights from Animal Studies
Dr. Beth Berkowitz interviews the two co-chairs, Dr. Suzanna Millar and Dr. Sébastien Doane of the Society for Biblical Literature’s new program unit in “Animal Studies.”
Read MoreExecution and Irony
Dr. Beth Berkowitz writes a retrospective of her first book, Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures (Oxford UP, 2006).
Read MoreThe Uppity Donkey and the Distraught Rabbi: Critical Animal Studies and the Talmud
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Beth Berkowitz continues AJR’s Animal Forum: “Ancient texts like the Talmud allow us to take biopolitics back to their formative years, to reveal how animals came to occupy the margins of personhood and how their only partially suppressed subjectivities formed the backdrop for the emergence of the human self as we know it.”
Read MoreDivine Law in the Container Store
Row of Amphorae (Ad Meskens, Bodrum Castle Turkey)
Row of Amphorae (Ad Meskens, Bodrum Castle Turkey)
Dr. Beth Berkowitz reviews Hayes' What's Divine About Divine Law with a "Container Store" worthy synopsis and explores the modern relevance of Hayes' work in the recent Supreme Court ruling on Same-Sex Marriage.
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