Abstinence and Holiness, Embracing Self-Deprivation - Reading Tractate Nazir in the Babylonian Talmud

The Talmud comprises a massive collection of rabbinical debates from late antiquity. This volume explicates one tractate within it, Nazir, concerned with self-imposed abstentions: no wine or product of the grapevine, no cutting of bodily hair, and no contact with a human corpse.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Definitions: What Is a Nazir? (2a-8b)
Chapter 2: Cows, Doors, and Wine (9a-16a)
Chapter 3: Graveyard Vows and Outsized Vows (16a-20b)
Chapter 4: "And I," Women, and Sacrificial Animals (20a-30b)
Chapter 5: Mistakes and Misunderstandings (30b-34a)
Chapter 6: The Three Proscriptions of Nezirut (34a-47a)
Chapter 7: Corpse Contamination (47a-57a)
Chapter 8:Doubts and Certainties (57a-61a)
Chapter 9: Tumah of the Deep and Floating Tumah (61a-66b)
Glossary
General Index
Biblical and Rabbinic References Index
About the Author

About the author

By Joshua A. Fogel

Summary

The Talmud comprises a massive collection of rabbinical debates from late antiquity. This volume explicates one tractate within it, Nazir, concerned with self-imposed abstentions: no wine or product of the grapevine, no cutting of bodily hair, and no contact with a human corpse.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua A Fogel, Joshua A. Fogel
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2023
• EAN: 9780761874133
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7413-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud, RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings, Judaism, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Rabbinic literature, Abstenation;Bavli;Nazir;Talmud