Introduction / Beth Berkowitz. Jordan D. Rosenblum -- Response to McGowan, Naiden, Ullucci, and Rosenblum / 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 Schu˜le -- Response to McGowan, Naiden, Ullucci, and Rosenblum / Beth Berkowitz.
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 Schu˜le, Miira Tuominen, and Daniel Ullucci. The volume is essential reading for scholars and students of both the ancient world and contemporary law.
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