English summary: Andreas Lehnardt presents an annotated German translation of the Tractate Pesahim (Passover) of the Talmud Yerushalmi. The translation is based on the Krotoszyn edition, but takes also into account those manuscripts and prints edited in the Synopsis of the Talmud Yerushalmi as well as some indirect textual witnesses and Geniza fragments. In a detailed commentary, the author explains all substantial interpretation and translation problems with the help of the traditional commentaries and the secondary literature. A bibliography and explanations of the methodology have also...

English summary: The Shabbat treatise is the longest in the Talmud Yerushalmi. It deals with the rules on the observation of the Shabbat, which is more important than the holidays. The basic commandment to rest is dealt with in detail in all areas of daily life, such as cooking, sewing, building, writing, harvesting, caring for the poor, travelling, shipping, dentistry, circumcision etc. There is a detailed commentary of Gil Frowald Huttenmeister's translation, and the modern secondary literature as well as the traditional commentaries are taken into consideration. The indexes, including an...

English summary: This Talmud tract deals with the rabbinic rules of purity for menstruating women as well as with issues regarding halakhic family, marriage and sexual laws. In addition, it also addresses problems in the area of the history of medicine, above all ancient embryology and the theory of congenital malformations (teratology). This is why great importance was attached to a detailed commentary which takes into account the modern secondary literature but also the traditional Jewish commentaries. In the afterword the translator shows how these texts are used in new contexts, above all...

English summary: The tractate Ketubbot, the second tractate in the order of Nashim (Women), deals with the laws relating to marriage discussing and defining the mutual duties and privileges of both spouses and the minimal amount of the marriage contract to which the wife is entitled in the case of her husband's death or in the case of divorce. Other topics bear on questions of the penalty in the absence of her virginity and adultery, and compensation and fines relating to the violation or seduction of certain classes of women. Discussions on the disposal of money, goods, slaves or property...

This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant sources concerning Jewish martyrdom in Antiquity. By viewing these narratives together, tracing their development and comparing them to other traditions, the authors seek to explore how Jewish is Jewish martyrdom? To this end, they analyse the impact of the changing social and religious-cultural circumstances and the interactions with Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. This results in the identification of important continuities and discontinuities. Consequently, while political ideals that are prominent in 2 and 4 Maccabees...