Joshua A. Fogel

Broschiertes Buch

Daily Reflections on Idolatry

Reading Tractate Avodah Zarah of the Babylonian Talmud

Beschreibung

This volume looks at Avodah Zarah, a tractate of the Talmud concerning idolatry, page by page. Daily Reflections on Idolatry offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples in an effort to both explain and humanize the text and make it even more accessible to contemporary readers.

Autor

Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in the Department of History at York University. His previous work has focused primarily on the cultural relations between China and Japan over the past two centuries. His most recent works include Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time (Harvard University Press, 2009) and Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), co-edited with Kalman Weiser.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9780761859130
• ISBN-10: 0761859136
• Artikelnr.: 35938496