(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar
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(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar

Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud

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eBook - ePub

(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar

Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud

About this book

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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Table of contents

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