RT Article
T1 The origin of taanit Esther
JF AJS review
VO 34
IS 2
SP 309
OP 351
A1 First, Mitchell 1958-
LA English
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1650551398
AB This study seeks to explain the origin of the fast of the 13th of Adar. The practice of fasting on this day is puzzling for a number of reasons. Although the Bible describes fasting in the year of the Purim threat, this fast occurred in Nissan and the weeks thereafter. Nor does tannaitic or amoraic literature mention the practice of fasting on the 13th of Adar. To add to the puzzle, Megillat ta‘anit, compiled in the first century ce, includes the 13th of Adar as a day on which Jews were prohibited from fasting.
K1 Fasting
K1 Purim
K1 Talmud
K1 Seders
K1 Jewish peoples
K1 Yom Kippur
K1 Judaica
K1 Jewish Law
DO 10.1017/S036400941000036X