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From here: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abortion-in-judaism:
“The scholars deduced the prohibition against abortion by an a fortiori argument from the laws concerning abstention from procreation, or onanism, or having sexual relations with one's wife when likely to harm the fetus in her womb – the perpetrator whereof being regarded as "a shedder of blood" (Yev. 62b; Nid. 13a and 31a; Ḥavvat Ya'ir, no. 31; She'elat Yaveẓ, 1:43; Mishpetei Uziel, 3:46).”
This appears to be the underlying meaning of the quotation from Josephus that you cited. From the same site, “during the Talmudic period abortion was not considered a transgression unless the foetus was viable [ben keyama].” In the view of R. Ishmael, only a Gentile, to whom some of the basic transgressions applied with greater stringency, incurred the death penalty for causing the loss of the fetus (Sanh. 57b).”
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From Walter T Wilson’s The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides:
“Our poem, then, despite its pretensions, is an example of classicizing, not classical, literature, entailing as such the transformative impersonation of a great author from the classical past. In its basic profile, the Sentences is consistent with other Jewish reimaginings of this past, in which Greek poets find their inspiration in Jewish sources. Pseudo-Phocylides “placed these sentences in the mouth of a Greek thinker who lived centuries earlier in order to show that already in ancient times the wisdom of the Greeks was influenced by the spirit of Moses, with the result that Jewish Torah and Greek ethics were thoroughly in agreement”.
[You might also like to look up Philo of Alexandria’s On the Life of Moses]
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Were you actually in possession of these texts a few paragraphs [or short quotes with page references] could easily have been supplied.
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