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(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar
Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud
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2013
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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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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6212-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6213-0
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
340
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Contents No access
Author’s Introduction No access
1 All Sacrifices No access Pages 1 - 34
2 Any Sacrifice Whose Blood Was Collected No access Pages 35 - 74
3 Any Disqualified People No access Pages 75 - 90
4 Bet Shammai Rule No access Pages 91 - 120
5 What Is the Proper Place? No access Pages 121 - 150
6 Most Holy Offerings No access Pages 151 - 172
7 A Bird Chatat No access Pages 173 - 182
8 All Sacrifices No access Pages 183 - 210
9 The Altar Sanctifies No access Pages 211 - 228
10 That Which Is More Frequent No access Pages 229 - 240
11 Blood of a Chatat No access Pages 241 - 260
12 A Tevul Yom No access Pages 261 - 286
13 One Slaughters and Offers No access Pages 287 - 306
14 A Chatat Cow No access Pages 307 - 328
Glossary of Selected Terms No access Pages 329 - 332
Index of Tannaim and Amoraim No access Pages 333 - 336
Index of Biblical and Rabbinic References No access Pages 337 - 340
