What Animals Teach Us About Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature
Author:   Beth A. Berkowitz
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520405233


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 January 2026
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What Animals Teach Us About Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature


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Author:   Beth A. Berkowitz
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520405233


ISBN 10:   0520405234
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Contents   Introduction: What Animals Teach Us About Families 1. Do Animals Love Their Children? The Science of Animal Families 2. The Bible's Animal-Family Laws: What Are They, Are They Related, and Are They Humanitarian? 3. Animal Grandmothers: The Prohibition Against Same-Day Slaughter 4. Animal Mothers: The Prohibition Against Cooking a Kid in His Mother's Milk 5. Animal Fathers and Other Caregivers: Sending Off the Mother Bird 6. Animal Orphans: Keeping the Baby with the Mother for the First Week of Life Conclusion: What Families Teach Us About Animals Epilogue: Five Ways to Support Animal Families With Rabbi Melissa Hoffman   Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index of Sources General Index

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Beth A. Berkowitz is Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Barnard College.

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