Free Kindle Book for Sunday 3/18 from Talmudic Books - Eleazar: Rabbi, Priest, Patriarch [Kindle Edition]

Our free book by Tzvee Zahavy is Eleazar: Rabbi, Priest, Patriarch [Kindle Edition] and it takes us back a few years. The texts have not changed and our analysis of them still holds firm.

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Product Description

For anyone concerned with the formative period of rabbinic Judaism, the study of Eleazar b. Azariah and his traditions is naturally important. He was prominent as a rabbi, a priest and a politician. According to rabbinic texts, Eleazar was a major figure among the rabbis at Yavneh in Israel in the second century C.E. Rabbinic literature speaks of Eleazar in more than two hundred places. One narrative describes that he was an important political figure at Yavneh and reports that he played a role in the events surrounding the deposition of Gamaliel II from the patriarchate. Many other traditions juxtapose his teachings with those of Aqiva, Eliezer, Joshua, and other major rabbis of the early era.