Migrating Tales : The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context /

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This study situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. The book argues tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalmin, Richard Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Talmud.
Talmud > Critique narrative.
Talmud > Criticism, Narrative.
Narration in rabbinical literature.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Narration dans la litterature rabbinique.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This study situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. The book argues that non-Jewish literature deriving from the eastern Roman provinces is a crucially important key to interpreting Babylonian rabbinic literature, to a degree unimagined by earlier scholars.
Physical Description:1 online resource (302 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780520958999

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