Joshua A. Fogel

(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar (eBook, PDF)

Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk of what we now know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult and has accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent translations have made it somewhat more accessible to English-language readers, but textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at tractate Zevachim (Sacrifices), which is mostly concerned with meat offerings slaughtered and presented at the Temple (when it stood). Joshua A. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the text for contemporary readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761890294
• Artikelnr.: 74399569

Autorenporträt

Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in the Department of History at York University. His previous work has focused primarily on the cultural interactions between China and Japan over the past two centuries. His most recent writings include: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Reading Tractate Horayot of the Babylonian Talmud (Hamilton Books, 2013); Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake (Brill, 2013); Daily Reflections on Idolatry: Reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud (Hamilton Books, 2012); and Shimada Kenji: Scholar, Thinker, Reader (MerwinAsia, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Introduction Chapter 1: All Sacrifices Chapter 2: Any Sacrifice
Whose Blood Was Collected Chapter 3: Any Disqualified People Chapter 4: Bet
Shammai Rule Chapter 5: What Is the Proper Place? Chapter 6: Most Holy
Offerings Chapter 7: A Bird Chatat Chapter 8: All Sacrifices Chapter 9: The
Altar Sacrifices Chapter 10: That Which Is More Frequent Chapter 11: Blood
of a Chatat Chapter 12: A Tevul Yom Chapter 13: One Slaughters and Offers
Chapter 14: A Chatat Cow Glossary of Selected Terms Index of Tannaim and
Amoraim Index of Biblical and Rabbinical References