About This Text
Composed: Talmudic Israel, c.190 – c.230 CE
Tractate Avodah Zara (“Idolatry”) is a tractate in Seder Nezikin (“Order of Damages") that discusses the prohibition of idolatry and regulations on interactions between Jews and idolaters. Among the topics covered are economic relationships with idolaters and consumption of their food, forbidden idols and images and the process of their nullification, and the prohibition of deriving benefit from wine that was poured as libation for idol worship.