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With the publication of ""Yerushalmi Pesahim"", the University of Chicago Press completes a landmark edition of the Palestinian Talmud - ""The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation"". Edited by the scholar Jacob Neusner, this is a 35-volume translation. ""Yerushalmi Pesahim"" details the specific requirements regarding the preparation for Passover, the Passover sacrifice and the Seder. Commenting on the many, often contradictory, prescriptions in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, this tractate is an important part of a long tradition of interpretation regarding Passover.

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Jacob Neusner, 1932-2016, was one of the world's foremost scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts. He taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, the University of South Florida, and Bard College. He was author or editor of more than 900 books for students, scholars, and general readers in Judaism, comparative religion, and the history and analysis of rabbinic texts. He was general editor of The Talmud of the Land of Israel, published in thirty-five volumes by the University of Chicago Press.

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