Confessing Incest to a Rabbi: A Talmudic Story in Its Zoroastrian Context
A fascinating anecdote preserved in the Babylonian Talmud (b. ῾Abod. Zar. 17a) tells the story of a woman who comes before Rav Hisda and discloses to him that her younger son is the product of incestuous intercourse she has performed with her older son. Rav Hisda, in turn, rather than instructing he...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2014
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2014, Volume: 107, Issue: 4, Pages: 401-424 |
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