The Origins of the Seder : The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism / Baruch M. Bokser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bokser, Baruch M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TRANSLITERATIONS AND TRANSCRIPTIONS

1. DEFINING THE PROBLEM

2. PRERABBINIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PASSOVER EVE RITUAL: THE CENTRALITY OF THE PASSOVER SACRIFICE

3. MISHNAH AND TOSEFTA PESAḤIM 10

4. THE MISHNAH'S RESPONSE: THE MEANING OF PASSOVER CONTINUES WITHOUT THE PASSOVER SACRIFICE

5. A JEWISH SYMPOSIUM? THE PASSOVER RITE AND EARLIER PROTOTYPES OF MEAL CELEBRATIONS

6. THE PERSPECTIVE OF EARLY RABBINIC JUDAISM

7. FROM FORM TO MEANING: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PASSOVER RITE AND ITS PLACE IN EARLY RABBINIC JUDAISM

Appendix A. ROASTED MEAT OR SACRIFICES AFTER 70 C.E.?

Appendix B. THE HEBREW TEXTS OF MISHNAH AND TOSEFTA PESAḤIM 10

NOTES

GLOSSARY

ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520317376

0520317378

OCLC:

1149413191