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Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Gwynn Kessler
Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Gwynn Kessler
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.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 23, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812241754 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 30 mm · 544 g |