Some Egyptian Fragments of the Passover Hagada

Aphrahat's demonstrations. A conversation with the Jews of Mesopotamia. By E. Lizorkin. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 642. Subsidia, 129.) Pp. xvi+176. Louvain: Peeters, 2012. €70 (paper). 978 90 429 2574 8; 0070 0444

“…320 However, the custom of eating roasted meat on Passover in spite of the prohibition of some rabbis survived throughout the centuries all the way to the Gaonic period. 321 Jonathan Smith"s sociological observation is that ritual represents the creation of a controlled environment where the variables (the accidents) of ordinary life may be displaced, precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful.…”