Joshua A. Fogel

Abstinence and Holiness, Embracing Self-Deprivation

Reading Tractate Nazir in the Babylonian Talmud

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780761874133
• ISBN-10: 0761874135
• Artikelnr.: 69076913

Autorenporträt

By Joshua A. Fogel

Inhaltsangabe

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