Daily Reflections on Idolatry - Reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud

Informationen zum Autor Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in the Department of History at York University. His previous work has focused primarily on the cultural relations between China and Japan over the past two centuries. His most recent works include Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time (Harvard University Press, 2009) and Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), co-edited with Kalman Weiser. Klappentext This volume looks at Avodah Zarah, a tractate of the Talmud concerning idolatry, page by page. Daily Reflections on Idolatry offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples in an effort to both explain and humanize the text and make it even more accessible to contemporary readers. Zusammenfassung This volume looks at Avodah Zarah! a tractate of the Talmud concerning idolatry! page by page. Daily Reflections on Idolatry offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples in an effort to both explain and humanize the text and make it even more accessible to contemporary readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter One (dapim 2-22a)Chapter Two (dapim 22a-40b)Chapter Three (dapim 40b-49b)Chapter Four (dapim 49b-61b)Chapter Five (dapim 62a-76b)Glossary of Selected TermsIndex to Biblical and Rabbinic ReferencesGeneral Index

Product details

• Authors: Joshua A. Fogel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2012
• EAN: 9780761859130
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5913-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Theology, Judaism, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Judaism: theology, Avodah Zarah;idolatry;Religion;Studies in Judaism