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Rabbinic traditions between Palestine and Babylonia

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In this book various authors explore how rabbinic traditions that were formulated in the Land of Israel migrated to Jewish study houses in Babylonia. The authors demonstrate how the new location and the unique literary character of the Babylonian Talmud combine to create new and surprising texts out of the old ones. Some authors concentrate on inner rabbinic social structures that influence the changes the traditions underwent. Others show the influence of the host culture on the metamorphosis of the traditions. The result is a complex study of cultural processes, as shaped by a unique historical moment.

Title Rabbinic traditions between Palestine and Babylonia / edited by Ronit Nikolsky and Tal Ilan.
Publisher Leiden, Netherlands : Brill
Creation Date 2014
Notes Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content Preliminary Material -- 1 מהתם להכא from There to Here (bSanh 5a), Rabbinic Traditions between Palestine and Babylonia: An Introduction / Ronit Nikolsky and Tal Ilan -- 2 Now You See it, Now You Don’t: Can Source-Criticism Perform Magic on Talmudic Passages about Sorcery? / Shamma Friedman -- 3 No Boundaries for the Construction of Boundaries: The Babylonian Talmud’s Emphasis on Demarcation of Identity / Lavee Lavee -- 4 Midgets and Mules, Elephants and Exilarchs: On the Metamorphosis of a Polemical Amoraic Story / Geoffrey Herman -- 5 Rescue from Transgression through Death
Rescue from Death through Transgression / Christiane Tzuberi -- 6 A Tale of Two Sinais: On the Reception of the Torah according to bShab 88a / Amram Tropper -- 7 Heaven and Hell: Babylonia and the Land of Israel in the Bavli / Tal Ilan -- 8 From Disagreement to Talmudic Discourse: Progymnasmata and the Evolution of a Rabbinic Genre / David Brodsky -- 9 The Misfortunes and Adventures of Elihoreph and Ahiah in the Land of Israel and in Babylonia: The Metamorphosis of a Narrative Tradition and Ways of Acculturation / Reuven Kiperwasser -- 10 Commercial Law in Rome and Ctesiphon: Roman Jurisconsults, Rabbis and Sasanian Dastwars on Risk / Yaakov Elman -- 11 From Palestine to Babylonia and Back: The Place of the Bavli and the Tanhuma on the Rabbinic Cultural Continuum / Ronit Nikolsky -- 12 Was Rabbi Aqiva a Martyr? Palestinian and Babylonian Influences in the Development of a Legend -- Index of Sources -- Index of Authors -- Index of Rabbinic Names -- Index of Place Names -- General Index.
Series Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 1871-6636
Volume 89
Extent 1 online resource (385 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997010711127705171
MARC RECORDS
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