The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic JudaismThis 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
DEFINING THE PROBLEM | 1 |
PRERABBINIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PASSOVER | 14 |
Wisdom Philo and Josephus | 22 |
MISHNAH AND TOSEFTA PESAHIM 10 | 36 |
A JEWISH SYMPOSIUM? THE PASSOVER RITE | 50 |
The Distinctive Nature of the Celebration | 62 |
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF | 76 |
The Cult Continues | 84 |
APPENDIX B THE HEBREW TEXTS OF MISHNAH | 107 |
NOTES | 113 |
80 | 115 |
Introduction | 116 |
101 | 123 |
Analysis of Mishnah Pesahim 10 | 140 |
GLOSSARY | 143 |
| 183 | |
Other editions - View all
The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism Baruch M. Bokser Limited preview - 1986 |
The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism Baruch M. Bokser Limited preview - 1984 |
The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism Baruch M. Bokser Limited preview - 2021 |
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