Lives of Great Religious Books: The Passover Haggadah: A Biography
Lives of Great Religious Books: The Passover Haggadah: A Biography
Editor/Author
Ochs, Vanessa L.
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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$47.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$70.50
ISBN: 978-0-69-120152-8
Category: Religion & Theology - Judaism
Image Count:
9
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Passover Haggadah: A Biography presents the life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder table.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Life of the Haggadah
- Chapter 1. How the Haggadah Came to Be: Early Sources in the Bible, Tosefta, Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash
- Chapter 2. On Becoming a Book: From the Earliest Haggadot to the Illuminated Haggadot of the Middle Ages
- Chapter 3. The Printed Haggadah and Its Enduring Conventions: A Text of One's Own
- Chapter 4. Twentieth-Century Variations: The Haggadah in American Jewish Movements, Israeli Kibbutzim, and American Third Seders
- Chapter 5. Haggadot of Darkness
- Chapter 6. The Haggadah of the Moment
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- Glossary