Grains of Truth
Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud
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Author
Publication
2013 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Language
English
Word Count
98,000 words, Guess
Page Count
392 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28528800M
- ISBN-139780761863014
- OCLC Control Number863789418
- Library of Congress Control Number2013955219
Classifications
- LCCBM506.M49F645 2014
Description
"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 immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk of what we know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult, having 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 Menachot (grain offerings), which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. 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."--Page [4] of cover.
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