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(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar: Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud

(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar: Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud

Fogel, Joshua A.

Paperback

Religion General Judaism

ISBN10: 0761862129
ISBN13: 9780761862123
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: Nov 14 2013
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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