This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various... Læs mere
This volume looks at tractate Zevachim (Sacrifices), which is mostly concerned with meat offerings slaughtered and... Læs mere
Fogel explores the tractate Horayot (Decisions), page by page, and offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and... Læs mere
This volume looks at Avodah Zarah, a tractate of the Talmud concerning idolatry, page by page. Daily Reflections on... Læs mere
The Whole Megilla tracks tractate Megilla of the Babylonia Talmud page by page, offering an close reading and exegesis of the text. It makes this difficult work comprehensible.
Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of each other, and the information... Læs mere
Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in... Læs mere
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.