The Whole Megilla tracks tractate Megilla of the Babylonia Talmud page by page, offering an close reading and exegesis of the text. It makes this difficult work comprehensible.  Meer

This volume looks at tractate Zevachim (Sacrifices), which is mostly concerned with meat offerings slaughtered and presented at the Temple (when it stood).  Meer

This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain the text for contemporary readers.  Meer

Fogel explores the tractate Horayot (Decisions), page by page, and offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples. The central focus concerns how to adjudicate cases when the governing body, the Sanhedrin, incorrectly designates certain practices legal and people follow the erroneous advice as a result.  Meer

The Talmud comprises a massive collection of rabbinical debates from late antiquity. This volume explicates one tractate within it, Nazir, concerned with self-imposed abstentions: no wine or product of the grapevine, no cutting of bodily hair, and no contact with a human corpse.  Meer

After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan's immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea.  Meer

Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of each other, and the information that helped to fuel those perceptions. There are two sections: China in Japan, debating the Asiatic Mode of Production and kyodotai; and Japan in China, covering the Manchurian Railway.  Meer

Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of each other, and the information that helped to fuel those perceptions. There are two sections: China in Japan, debating the Asiatic Mode of Production and kyodotai; and Japan in China, covering the Manchurian Railway.  Meer

Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form.  Meer

This volume looks at Avodah Zarah, a tractate of the Talmud concerning idolatry, page by page. Daily Reflections on Idolatry offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples in an effort to both explain and humanize the text and make it even more accessible to contemporary readers.  Meer

Translations from Shigaku zassh (the oldest historical journal in Japan), 1983-86. Published simultaneously as v.22, no.1-2 of Chinese studies in history.  Meer