Migrating tales : the Talmud's narratives and their historical context /
Kalmin, Richard Lee.
Migrating tales : the Talmud's narratives and their historical context / Richard Kalmin. - 1 online resource : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Manasseh sawed Isaiah with a saw of wood": an ancient legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Persian sources -- R. Shimon bar Yohai meets St. Bartholomew: peripatetic traditions in late antique Judaism and Christianity East of Syria -- The miracle of the Septuagint in ancient rabbinic and Christian literature -- The demons in Solomon's Temple -- Zechariah and the bubbling blood: an ancient tradition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literature -- Pharisees -- Astrology -- The Alexander romance.
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.
English.
9780520958999 0520958993 0520277252 9780520277250
10.1525/9780520958999 doi
81EADC98-18BF-4992-A249-79769A7799ED OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt74qfj3 JSTOR
2014002050
Talmud--Criticism, Narrative.
Talmud--Critique narrative.
Talmud
Narration in rabbinical literature.
Narration dans la littérature rabbinique.
RELIGION--Judaism--General.
HISTORY--Ancient--General.
Narration in rabbinical literature
ancient greek literature. ancient history. ancient literature. ancient mesopotamian literature. ancient persian literature. ancient syriac literature. antiquity. babylonian rabbinic literature. babylonian talmud. bavli. christian roman empire. christianity. cultural context. gemara. jewish cultural life. jewish history. jewish religious law. jewish theology. judaism. literary. middle ages. mishnah. rabbinic judaism. rabbinic stories. religion. talmud.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM509.N37 / K35 2014eb
296.1/2067
Migrating tales : the Talmud's narratives and their historical context / Richard Kalmin. - 1 online resource : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Manasseh sawed Isaiah with a saw of wood": an ancient legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Persian sources -- R. Shimon bar Yohai meets St. Bartholomew: peripatetic traditions in late antique Judaism and Christianity East of Syria -- The miracle of the Septuagint in ancient rabbinic and Christian literature -- The demons in Solomon's Temple -- Zechariah and the bubbling blood: an ancient tradition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literature -- Pharisees -- Astrology -- The Alexander romance.
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.
English.
9780520958999 0520958993 0520277252 9780520277250
10.1525/9780520958999 doi
81EADC98-18BF-4992-A249-79769A7799ED OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt74qfj3 JSTOR
2014002050
Talmud--Criticism, Narrative.
Talmud--Critique narrative.
Talmud
Narration in rabbinical literature.
Narration dans la littérature rabbinique.
RELIGION--Judaism--General.
HISTORY--Ancient--General.
Narration in rabbinical literature
ancient greek literature. ancient history. ancient literature. ancient mesopotamian literature. ancient persian literature. ancient syriac literature. antiquity. babylonian rabbinic literature. babylonian talmud. bavli. christian roman empire. christianity. cultural context. gemara. jewish cultural life. jewish history. jewish religious law. jewish theology. judaism. literary. middle ages. mishnah. rabbinic judaism. rabbinic stories. religion. talmud.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM509.N37 / K35 2014eb
296.1/2067