Hamilton Books
Pages: 344
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-6212-3 • Paperback • November 2013 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7618-6213-0 • eBook • November 2013 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in the Department of History at York University. His previous work has focused primarily on the cultural interactions between China and Japan over the past two centuries. His most recent writings include: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Reading Tractate Horayot of the Babylonian Talmud (Hamilton Books, 2013); Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake (Brill, 2013); Daily Reflections on Idolatry: Reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud (Hamilton Books, 2012); and Shimada Kenji: Scholar, Thinker, Reader (MerwinAsia, 2014).
Author’s Introduction
Chapter 1: All Sacrifices
Chapter 2: Any Sacrifice Whose Blood Was Collected
Chapter 3: Any Disqualified People
Chapter 4: Bet Shammai Rule
Chapter 5: What Is the Proper Place?
Chapter 6: Most Holy Offerings
Chapter 7: A Bird Chatat
Chapter 8: All Sacrifices
Chapter 9: The Altar Sacrifices
Chapter 10: That Which Is More Frequent
Chapter 11: Blood of a Chatat
Chapter 12: A Tevul Yom
Chapter 13: One Slaughters and Offers
Chapter 14: A Chatat Cow
Glossary of Selected Terms
Index of Tannaim and Amoraim
Index of Biblical and Rabbinical References