Sacrifice in rabbinic Judaism: the presentation of the atonement-rite of sacrifice in tractate Zebahim in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Bavli and Yerushalmi

In connection with animal offerings, the Halakhah of the Oral Torah gives four sets of rules, most of them addressing issues not taken up in Scripture but precipitated by Scripture's account of issues. Inline with the elaborate account of the Written Torah, the Oral Torah identifies its own con...

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Published in:Annali di storia dell'esegesi
Main Author: Neusner, Jacob 1932-2016 (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Ed. Dehoniane 2001
In: Annali di storia dell'esegesi
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sacrifice (Religion) / Halacha / Rabbinic literature
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Sacrifice Religion
B Halacha
B Rabbinic literature
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Summary:In connection with animal offerings, the Halakhah of the Oral Torah gives four sets of rules, most of them addressing issues not taken up in Scripture but precipitated by Scripture's account of issues. Inline with the elaborate account of the Written Torah, the Oral Torah identifies its own concerns. It wants to know, specifically, about the role of intentionality in the cult of sacrifice, a question not explicitly addressed in the Written Torah's treatment of the subject hut considered to he implicit in it. Further interest encompasses issues systematically addressed in the Oral Torah's examination of a broad variety of topics, e.g. of the mixing and confusion of categories, rules of precedence, and the like. Here too, the Written Torah supplies the hard facts that the Oral Torah systematizes, in which the Oral Torah finds indicative traits susceptible to ordering. Finally, while Scripture does not differentiate among the altar's locations, the Oral Torah systematizes information on the subject, and deals with the diverse rules governing sacrifices at the several locations where Israel made offerings prior to the building of the Temple.
ISSN:1120-4001
Contains:In: Annali di storia dell'esegesi