Bar-Ilan University Press

A People Alone

Studies in Tractate Avoda Zara

Zvi Arie Steinfeld

This book deals with rabbinic enactments and prohibitions from the Second Temple period, designed to separate Jews from gentiles, from their practices and from their culture, e.g. the prohibitions of eating with a gentile, or partaking of a gentile's bread, oil and cooked foods. The Talmudic passages that deal with these prohibitions are examined from the critical perspective of contemporary research, with the aim of determining the original meaning of the sources, and thus identifying the original enactments and prohibitions, the changes they underwent in the course of time and in different places, and the factors that brought about these changes.

Additional Book Details

Danacode: 110-20114 ISBN: 978-965-226-350-6 Language: Hebrew Pages: 344 Weight: 760 gr Publication Date: 04/2008 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

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