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Daily reflections on idolatry : reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud by Joshua A. Fogel is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Daily reflections on idolatry : reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud about?
Comprised of rabbinic debates in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), the Talmud has provided the basis for Jewish ethical and practical norms for centuries. It is also an extremely long and forbiddingly difficult work that has accumulated countless commentaries just as complex. A recent translation with extensive notes has made the Talmud more accessible to English-language readers, but the textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at Avodah Zarah, one tractate
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- Author
- Joshua A. Fogel
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton Books
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780761859130
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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