Berkowitz, Beth

Beth A. Berkowitz is Professor of Religion at Barnard College, where she has taught since 2012. She is author of Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures, Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present, and Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud. She is co-editor of Religious Studies and Rabbinics. Her book What Animals Teach Us about Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature is forthcoming with University of California Press.