Conceiving Israel

Conceiving Israel
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780812241754
ISBN-13 : 0812241754
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Book Synopsis Conceiving Israel by : Gwynn Kessler

Download or read book Conceiving Israel written by Gwynn Kessler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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