When Species Meet in the Mishnah
by R.R. Neis
"To the extent that concerns about the human, species, animality, and reproduction criss-cross antiquity and the present, a species-informed approach to late antiquity not only allows us to hazard ways of thinking/being the non/human, it also can short-circuit rhetorical invocations of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” by falsifying cherished myths."
Animals in the Way
“To be sure: the writings of many of the early Christian authors most closely associated with negative evaluations of animals are, upon closer inspection, much more complex than a cursory reading might suggest.”
The Uppity Donkey and the Distraught Rabbi: Critical Animal Studies and the Talmud
“Ancient texts like the Talmud allow us to take biopolitics back to their formative years, to reveal how animals came to occupy the margins of personhood and how their only partially suppressed subjectivities formed the backdrop for the emergence of the human self as we know it.”
After Post, or, Animal Religion in an Age of Extinction
by C.M. Chin
"The human animal destroys itself through confusion over its animality, but it destroys other animals in that confusion too."