The Culture Of The Babylonian Talmud
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The Culture Of The Babylonian Talmud
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Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-08-17
The Culture Of The Babylonian Talmud written by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-17 with History categories.
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter Palestinian Talmud (the Yerushalmi) and who had passed on their teachings to students individually or in small and informal groups, the anonymous redactors of the Bavli were part of a large institution with a distinctive, isolated, and largely undocumented culture. The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud explores the cultural world of these Babylonian rabbis and their students through the prism of the stories they included in the Bavli, showing how their presentation of earlier rabbinic teachings was influenced by their own values and practices. Among the topics explored in this broad-ranging work are the hierarchical structure of the rabbinic academy, the use of dialectics in teaching, the functions of violence and shame within the academy, the role of lineage in rabbinic leadership, the marital and family lives of the rabbis, and the relationship between the rabbis and the rest of the Jewish population. This book provides a unique and new perspective on the formative years of rabbinic Judaism and will be essential reading for all students of the Talmud. -- Michael Satlow, Brown University
The Archaeology And Material Culture Of The Babylonian Talmud
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Author : Markham J. Geller
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-11-02
The Archaeology And Material Culture Of The Babylonian Talmud written by Markham J. Geller and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-02 with Religion categories.
The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved.
The Geonim Of Babylonia And The Shaping Of Medieval Jewish Culture
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Author : Robert Brody
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Geonim Of Babylonia And The Shaping Of Medieval Jewish Culture written by Robert Brody and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with History categories.
The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named, were the heads of the ancient talmudic academies of Babylonia. They gained ascendancy over the older Palestinian center of Judaism and were recognized as the leading religious and spiritual authorities by most of the world's Jewish population. The Geonim and their circles enshrined the Babylonian Talmud as the central canonical work of rabbinic literature and the leading guide to religious practice, and it was a predominantly Babylonian version of Judaism that was transplanted to newer centers of Judaism in North Africa and Europe. Robert Brody's book -- the first survey in English of the Geonic period in almost a century -focuses on the cultural milieu of the Geonim and on their intellectual and literary creativity. Brody describes the cultural spheres in which the Geonim were active and the historical and cultural settings within which they functioned. He emphasizes the challenges presented by other Jewish institutions and individuals, ranging from those within the Babylonian Jewish setting -- specially the political leadership represented by the Exilarch -- to the competing Palestinian Jewish center and to sectarian movements and freethinkers who rejected rabbinic authority altogether. He also describes the variety of ways in which the development of Geonic tradition was affected by the surrounding non-Jewish cultures, both Muslim and Christian. "This book is a fresh and thorough examination of the period in question, a masterpiece of scholarship and erudition". -- Neil Danzig, Jewish Theological Seminary
Talmudic Stories
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Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1999-10-15
Talmudic Stories written by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-15 with Art categories.
The book features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.
The Formation Of The Babylonian Talmud
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Author : David Weiss Halivni
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-15
The Formation Of The Babylonian Talmud written by David Weiss Halivni and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Religion categories.
David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing of the Babylonian Talmud. Halivni presents the summation of a lifetime of scholarship and the conclusions of his multivolume Talmudic commentary, Sources and Traditions (Meqorot umesorot). Arguing against the traditional view that the Talmud was composed c. 450 CE by the last of the named sages in the Talmud, the Amoraim, Halivni proposes that its formation took place over a much longer period of time, not reaching its final form until about 750 CE. The Talmud consists of many literary strata or layers, with later layers commenting upon and reinterpreting earlier layers. The later layers differ qualitatively from the earlier layers, and were composed by anonymous sages whom Halivni calls Stammaim. These sages were the true author-editors of the Talmud. They reconstructed the reasons underpinning earlier rulings, created the dialectical argumentation characteristic of the Talmud, and formulated the literary units that make up the Talmudic text. Halivni also discusses the history and development of rabbinic tradition from the Mishnah through the post-Talmudic legal codes, the types of dialectical analysis found in the different rabbinic works, and the roles of reciters, transmitters, compilers, and editors in the composition of the Talmud. This volume contains an introduction and annotations by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein.
Rabbis Sorcerers Kings And Priests
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Author : Jason Sion Mokhtarian
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Rabbis Sorcerers Kings And Priests written by Jason Sion Mokhtarian and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Religion categories.
Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. What impact did the Persian Zoroastrian Empire, as both a real historical force and an imaginary interlocutor, have on rabbinic identity and authority as expressed in the Talmud? Drawing from the field of comparative religion, Jason Sion Mokhtarian addresses this question by bringing into mutual fruition Talmudic studies and ancient Iranology, two historically distinct disciplines. Whereas most research on the Talmud assumes that the rabbis were an insular group isolated from the cultural horizon outside their academies, this book contextualizes the rabbis and the Talmud within a broader sociocultural orbit by drawing from a wide range of sources from Sasanian Iran, including Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature, archaeological data such as seals and inscriptions, and the Aramaic magical bowl spells. Mokhtarian also includes a detailed examination of the Talmud’s dozens of texts that portray three Persian "others": the Persians, the Sasanian kings, and the Zoroastrian priests. This book skillfully engages and demonstrates the rich penetration of Persian imperial society and culture on the Jews of late antique Iran.
The Cambridge Companion To The Talmud And Rabbinic Literature
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Author : Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-28
The Cambridge Companion To The Talmud And Rabbinic Literature written by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-28 with Religion categories.
This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.
Stories Of The Babylonian Talmud
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Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-10
Stories Of The Babylonian Talmud written by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-10 with Religion categories.
The third installment of Rubenstein’s trilogy of works on the subject, Stories of the Babylonian Talmud is essential reading for all students of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism.
Demons In The Details
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Author : Sara Ronis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2025-04-15
Demons In The Details written by Sara Ronis and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-15 with History categories.
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.
The Babylonian Talmud And Late Antique Book Culture
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Author : Monika Amsler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-06
The Babylonian Talmud And Late Antique Book Culture written by Monika Amsler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-06 with History categories.
A new theory of the Talmud's formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.