Research Catalog

Title

Animals and the law in antiquity / edited by Saul M. Olyan, Jordan D. Rosenblum.

Publication

• Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2021]
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Olyan, Saul M.
• Rosenblum, Jordan, 1979-

Description

xi, 216 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Animal law has become a topic of growing importance internationally, with animal welfare and animal rights often assuming center stage in contemporary debates about the legal status of animals. While nonspecialists routinely decontextualize ancient texts to support or deny rights to animals, experts in fields such as classics, biblical studies, Assyriology, Egyptology, rabbinics, and late antique Christianity have only just begun to engage the topic of animals and the law in their respective areas. This volume consists of studies by scholars from a range of Mediterranean and West Asian fields on animals and the law. Contributors include Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, Beth Berkowitz, Andrew McGowan, F. S. Naiden, Saul M. Olyan, Seth Richardson, Jordan D. Rosenblum, Andreas Schüle, Miira Tuominen, and Daniel Ullucci. The volume is essential reading for scholars and students of both the ancient world and contemporary law.

Series Statement

Brown Judaic Studies ; number 368

Uniform Title

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 368.

Subject

• Animals > Law and legislation
• Animal welfare > Law and legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Saul M. Olyan, Jordan D. Rosenblum -- Mere things or sentient beings? : the legal status of animals in ancient Egyptian society / Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer -- Partial persons, unsafe spaces : the Babylonian production of class through laws about animals / Seth Richardson -- Symmetry or asymmetry according to the law? : the case of domesticated animals and human beings / Saul M. Olyan -- Animals in Greek and Roman criminal law / F. S. Naiden -- Animal acts : diet and law in the Acts of the Apostles and early Christian practice / Andrew McGowan -- The role of laws in Porphyry's arguments against animal sacrifice / Miira Tuominen -- Banning animal sacrifice ad infinitum : cui bono? / Daniel Ullucci -- Dolphins are humans of the sea (a Bekhorot 8a) : animals and legal categorization in Rabbinic literature / Jordan D. Rosenblum -- Response to Bailleul-LeSuer, Olyan, Richardson, and Tuominen / Andreas Schüle -- Response to McGowan, Naiden, Ullucci, and Rosenblum / Beth Berkowitz.

Call Number

JFE 22-3359

ISBN

• 9781951498832
• 1951498836
• 9781951498825
• 1951498828

LCCN

2021941885

OCLC

1264211837

Title

Animals and the law in antiquity / edited by Saul M. Olyan, Jordan D. Rosenblum.

Publisher

Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brown Judaic Studies ; number 368

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 368.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Olyan, Saul M., editor.

Rosenblum, Jordan, 1979- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3359