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The Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world /

"The Babylonian Talmud, the great compilation of Jewish law edited in the seventh century CE, also contains a great deal of aggada, that is, non-legal material, including interpretations of the Bible, stories, folk sayings and prayers. The Talmud's aggadic traditions contain echoes of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Herman, Geoffrey (Editor ), Rubenstein, Jeffrey L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Providence, RI : Brown Judaic Studies, [2018]
Colección:Brown Judaic Studies ; Number 362
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
  • A Demonic Servant in Rav Papa's Household: Demons as Subjects in the Mesopotamian Talmud / Sara Ronis
  • Narrative Bricolage and Cultural Hybrids in Rabbinic Babylonia: On the Narratives of Seduction and the Topos of Light / Reuven Kiperwasser
  • "Meishan Is Dead": On the Historical Contexts of the Bavli's Representations of the Jews in Southern Babylonia / Yakir Paz
  • "In Honor of the House of Caesar": Attitudes to the Kingdom in the Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and Other Sasanian Sources / Geoffrey Herman
  • Clusters of Iranian Loanwords in Talmudic Folkore: The Chapter of the Pious (b. Taʻanit 18b-26a) in its Sasanian Context / Jason Mokhtarian
  • Gaze and Counter-Gaze: Textuality and Contextuality in the Anecdote of Rav Assi and the Roman (b. Baba Metsiʻa 28b) / Shai Secunda
  • Martyrdom in the Persian Martyr Acts and in the Babylonian Talmud / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
  • A Persian Anti-Martyr Act: The Death of Rabba bar Naḥmani in Light of the Syriac Persian Martyr Acts / Simcha Gross
  • "Fool, Look to the End of the Verse": b. Ḥullin 87a and Its Christian Background / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
  • Dualistic Elements in Babylonian Aggada / Yaakov Elman
  • First Man, First Bovine: Talmudic Mythology in Context / Yishai Kiel
  • Mourner's Kaddish, The Prequel: The Sassanian Period Backstory That Gave Birth to the Medieval Prayer for the Dead / David Brodsky.