Blood for Thought

"Blood for Thought offers a groundbreaking way of thinking about the early rabbinic laws of sacrifice as a significant and substantive expression of rabbinic ideology. It promises to become the new touchstone for not only how scholars think about these laws but how they contextualize the rabbis within the larger worlds of antiquity and how they view the Temple and its operations within the schemes of Jewish history."--Beth A. Berkowitz, Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies at Barnard College. "An ambitious work that offers for the first time a description of rabbinic discourse on sacrifice and posits the idea of sacrifice at the heart of that worldview. This worthy study presents new questions and fresh insights, as it sets the highly detailed rabbinic ritual discussions within their Greco-Roman cultural and political framework."--Yair Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem