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

    By Joshua A. Fogel

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateNov 14, 2013
    ISBN9780761862130
    (Sacrifices) Left at the Altar: Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud
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    Joshua A. Fogel

    Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair and Professor of History at York University. He is the author of many books, including Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time and Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 CE: Relic, Text, Object, Fake. He is also the editor of The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography and the online journal Sino-Japanese Studies.

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