"Wasted seed", the history of a rabbinic idea

The many advances in source-criticism of the Babylonian Talmud can be a valuable tool in the study of the intellectual history of the rabbis. Here I attempt to combine source-criticism with philological and comparative methodologies to show that the idea that the non-procreative emission of semen is...

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Main Author: Satlow, Michael L. 1964- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: College 1994
In: Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 1994, Volume: 65, Pages: 137-175
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Rabbinic Judaism
B Halacha

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