Grains of Truth: Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud - Softcover

Fogel, Joshua A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076186301X ISBN 13: 9780761863014

Publisher: Hamilton Books, 2013

Synopsis

This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain the text for contemporary readers.

About this title

About the Author:

Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in the Department of History at York University. His research interests include Jewish history and thought, as well as the cultural dimension of Sino-Japanese relations. His most recent works include: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Reading Tractate Horayot of the Babylonian Talmud (Hamilton Books, 2013); Daily Reflections on Idolatry: Reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud (Hamilton Books, 2012); Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake (Brill, 2013); and Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time (Harvard University Press, 2009).

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 076186301X
• ISBN 13: 9780761863014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392