Animals and the law in antiquity /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Olyan, Saul M. (Editor), Rosenblum, Jordan, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2021]
Series:Brown Judaic studies ; no. 368.
Subjects:
To 476
Animals > Law and legislation.
Animal welfare > Law and legislation.
Animal culture > Mediterranean Region > History > To 476.
Law, Ancient.
Droit ancien.
Animal culture.
Mediterranean Region.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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