Abstinence and holiness, embracing self-deprivation: reading tractate nazir in the babylonian talmud
Auteur :
Fogel, Joshua A.
Éditeur :
University Press of America
ISBN :
9780761874133
Date de publication :
15 déc. 2023
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,1 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
336 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.