In this complement to his previous book, The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud: Its Social Meaning and Context (1994), Lightstone (Concordia University, Montreal) writes for a mixed audience, which
Jack Lightstone's "Commerce of the Sacred" remains an original and influential contribution to Judaic studies. Lightstone offers critical perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews
In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They particularly focus on the cha