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Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives

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Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives - Kessler, Gwynn
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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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Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives 2009, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812241754

Hardcover