{"id":2383,"date":"2017-05-03T03:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2017-05-03T03:41:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T03:41:42","slug":"tzaraat-in-light-of-its-mesopotamian-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/2017\/05\/tzaraat-in-light-of-its-mesopotamian-parallels\/","title":{"rendered":"Tzaraat in Light of Its Mesopotamian Parallels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; Notwithstanding its lengthy coverage of tzaraat (<a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tzaraath\" title=\"Tzaraath\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">\u05e6\u05e8\u05e2\u05ea<\/a>, biblical \u201cleprosy\u201d), why does the Torah omit discussion of its cause (sin?), its infectiousness, and its treatment?  Comparison to the Mesopotamian rituals pertaining to a strikingly similar disease (Sa\u1e2bar\u0161ubb\u00fb) shows that these omissions were far from accidental.&#8221;by Dr. Yitzhaq Feder (<a href=\"http:\/\/thetorah.com\/tzaraat-in-light-of-its-mesopotamian-parallels\/\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; Notwithstanding its lengthy coverage of tzaraat (\u05e6\u05e8\u05e2\u05ea, biblical \u201cleprosy\u201d), why does the Torah omit discussion of its cause (sin?), its infectiousness, and its treatment? Comparison to the Mesopotamian rituals pertaining to a strikingly similar disease (Sa\u1e2bar\u0161ubb\u00fb) shows that these omissions were far from accidental.&#8221;by Dr. Yitzhaq Feder (more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[725,726],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-academia","tag-tzaraat","tag-726","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}