 | Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities Subjects: Talmud. Avoda zara -- Criticism Textual; Talmud. Avoda zara -- Criticism interpretation etc.; Gentiles in rabbinical literature; Theological anthropology -- Judaism; Judaism -- Relations; In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals , Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara , arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human. Mira Beth Wasserman teaches rabbinic literature at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. |
