TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalmin,Richard Lee
TI  - Migrating tales: the Talmud's narratives and their historical context 
SN  - 9780520958999
AV  - BM509.N37 K35 2014eb
U1  - 296.1/2067 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Talmud
KW  - Criticism, Narrative
KW  - Critique narrative
KW  - fast
KW  - Narration in rabbinical literature
KW  - Narration dans la littérature rabbinique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - ancient greek literature
KW  - ancient history
KW  - ancient literature
KW  - ancient mesopotamian literature
KW  - ancient persian literature
KW  - ancient syriac literature
KW  - antiquity
KW  - babylonian rabbinic literature
KW  - babylonian talmud
KW  - bavli
KW  - christian roman empire
KW  - christianity
KW  - cultural context
KW  - gemara
KW  - jewish cultural life
KW  - jewish history
KW  - jewish religious law
KW  - jewish theology
KW  - judaism
KW  - literary
KW  - middle ages
KW  - mishnah
KW  - rabbinic judaism
KW  - rabbinic stories
KW  - religion
KW  - talmud
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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