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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910984612603321
• Autore: Bokser Baruch M.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1984]; ©1984
• ISBN: 9780520317376; 0520317378
• Edizione: [Reprint 2019]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.4/37
• Soggetti: NON-CLASSIFIABLE
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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
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