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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Origins of the Seder

The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism

by Baruch M. Bokser

A historical study of how the Passover meal took shape after the destruction of the Temple. Bokser reads the Mishnah and Tosefta closely and shows how the rabbis transformed a sacrificial rite into a home ritual of remembrance, with debts to the Greco-Roman banquet.

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