Richard Kalmin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1430579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Kalmin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalmin |
| SIGNATURE | KALMIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jewish Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Bavli, the Roman East, and Mesopotamian Christianity
The Bavli, the Roman East, and Mesopotamian Christianity Richard Kalmin Scholarly study of the Persian nexus of the Bavli began approximately a century and a half ago, but this study has entered a new stage of methodological rigor and sophistication during the past two decades. In the tremendous enthusiasm for the study of Bavli in its Persian context, however, some scholars have forgotten the obvious point that it is essential to use all of the …
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians
The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. The studies in this volume encompass a diverse array of topics concerning these religious communities inhabiting the Sasanian Empire. Some include the Roman East in their deliberations. Most, however, deal with the interaction of one or other religious community based in the Sasanian Empire with the dominant religion of the empire, Zoroa…
Migrating Tales
This book 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 deg…
Shimon ben Laqish, Rabbi
Rabbi Shimon ben Laqish was one of the most important Palestinian Amoraim. Like Rabbi Johanan ( see Johanan, Rabbi), with whom he routinely dialogued, he flourished in Tiberias, one of the major cities in Palestine, with a heavy concentration of Rabbis.
Minim (rabbinic appellation of “heretics”)
Early Palestinian rabbinic sources (second to third century CE ) urge avoidance of minim (heretics), contact with whom is depicted as dangerous but sought after because of their skill as healers and the attractiveness of their “words.”
Johanan, Rabbi
Rabbi Johanan lived in Tiberias, a Galilean city with a relatively large rabbinic population. He has aptly been described as the most prominent Palestinian Amora who ever lived (Hyman 1910: 653). The most obvious proof of this claim is the fact that he is mentioned more frequently in classical rabbinic literature than any other Palestinian Amora. In fact, Talmudic sources suggest that the Palestinian rabbinic community in the late third and early…
Jesus in Sasanian Babylonia
Jesus in Sasanian Babylonia PETER SCHAfer. Jeaiut in the Talmud. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 210.AS PETER SCHAfer informs us in this important, powerful, and absorbing volume, Christian anti-Semitism and supersessionism on the one hand and Jewish apologetics on the other have marred earlier scholarly attempts to study Jesus 's portrayal in the Talmud. Most misguided, however, are those scholars, chief among th…
Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine
The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the 3rd through 6th centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. What kind of society did these rabbis inhabit? What effect did that society have on important rabbinic texts? This book offers a re-examination of rabbinic culture of late antique Babylonia. It shows how this culture was shaped in part by Persia on the one hand, and by Roman Pale…
Rabbinic Traditions about Roman Persecutions of the Jews
The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity
The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity
The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a a master. This book examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalized rhetoric which pervades the Babylonian Talmud. It explores, first, how the editors of the Talmud employ a cons…
Christians and Heretics in Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
This article argues that early and later rabbinic texts, as well as Babylonian and Palestinian sources, express different attitudes toward minim (“heretics”) and Christians, and that these differing attitudes are useful in reconstructing the histories of diverse rabbinic communities. In evaluating the historicity of the rabbinic sources, it is important to bear in mind that early sources do not necessarily provide reliable information about early…
Rabbinic Attitudes toward Rabbis as a Key to the Dating of Talmudic Sources
Case Citation in the Babylonian Talmud
Talmudic Portrayals of Relationships Between Rabbis
In both halachic and aggadic contexts the Talmud frequently supplies information about the relationships between sages. Sages interact with each other, or comment on each other's erudition, piety, personality, and the like. From what sources does the Talmud derive this information? From sources contemporary with the sages involved, or from sources of a much later time? Some of the talmudic information is attributed to named authorities, some of i…
Collegial Interaction in the Babylonian Talmud
Saints or Sinners, Scholars or Ignoramuses? Stories About the Rabbis as Evidence for the Composite Nature of the Babylonian Talmud
As Jacob Neusner and others have argued, before talmudic stories can be evaluated as historical evidence we must ask who the original authors were, what were their motives, and who was their intended audience. Even once we obtain the “original” version of a story, we do not necessarily have access to the historical event which gave rise to the story. For perhaps accounts of the historical event have been colored, even distorted beyond recognition…
The Post-Rav Ashiamoraim
The problem of the redaction of the Talmud, the final stages of the process by which the document before us assumed its present shape, is one which every student of the Talmud must eventually face. Resolution of this problem is by no means a matter of mere historical curiosity. Knowledge of who the redactors were, at what time period (or time periods) they lived, and how they reworked their sources, is indispensable for full comprehension both of…
The Bavli, the Roman East, and Mesopotamian Christianity
The Bavli, the Roman East, and Mesopotamian Christianity Richard Kalmin Scholarly study of the Persian nexus of the Bavli began approximately a century and a half ago, but this study has entered a new stage of methodological rigor and sophistication during the past two decades. In the tremendous enthusiasm for the study of Bavli in its Persian context, however, some scholars have forgotten the obvious point that it is essential to use all of the …
Talmudic Portrayals of Relationships Between Rabbis
In both halachic and aggadic contexts the Talmud frequently supplies information about the relationships between sages. Sages interact with each other, or comment on each other's erudition, piety, personality, and the like. From what sources does the Talmud derive this information? From sources contemporary with the sages involved, or from sources of a much later time? Some of the talmudic information is attributed to named authorities, some of i…
The Post-Rav Ashiamoraim
The problem of the redaction of the Talmud, the final stages of the process by which the document before us assumed its present shape, is one which every student of the Talmud must eventually face. Resolution of this problem is by no means a matter of mere historical curiosity. Knowledge of who the redactors were, at what time period (or time periods) they lived, and how they reworked their sources, is indispensable for full comprehension both of…
Saints or Sinners, Scholars or Ignoramuses? Stories About the Rabbis as Evidence for the Composite Nature of the Babylonian Talmud
As Jacob Neusner and others have argued, before talmudic stories can be evaluated as historical evidence we must ask who the original authors were, what were their motives, and who was their intended audience. Even once we obtain the “original” version of a story, we do not necessarily have access to the historical event which gave rise to the story. For perhaps accounts of the historical event have been colored, even distorted beyond recognition…
Talmudic Portrayals of Relationships Between Rabbis
In both halachic and aggadic contexts the Talmud frequently supplies information about the relationships between sages. Sages interact with each other, or comment on each other's erudition, piety, personality, and the like. From what sources does the Talmud derive this information? From sources contemporary with the sages involved, or from sources of a much later time? Some of the talmudic information is attributed to named authorities, some of i…
Collegial Interaction in the Babylonian Talmud
Rabbinic Attitudes toward Rabbis as a Key to the Dating of Talmudic Sources
Case Citation in the Babylonian Talmud
Christians and Heretics in Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
This article argues that early and later rabbinic texts, as well as Babylonian and Palestinian sources, express different attitudes toward minim (“heretics”) and Christians, and that these differing attitudes are useful in reconstructing the histories of diverse rabbinic communities. In evaluating the historicity of the rabbinic sources, it is important to bear in mind that early sources do not necessarily provide reliable information about early…
The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a a master. This book examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalized rhetoric which pervades the Babylonian Talmud. It explores, first, how the editors of the Talmud employ a cons…
The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity
The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity
Rabbinic Traditions about Roman Persecutions of the Jews
Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine
The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the 3rd through 6th centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. What kind of society did these rabbis inhabit? What effect did that society have on important rabbinic texts? This book offers a re-examination of rabbinic culture of late antique Babylonia. It shows how this culture was shaped in part by Persia on the one hand, and by Roman Pale…
Jesus in Sasanian Babylonia
Jesus in Sasanian Babylonia PETER SCHAfer. Jeaiut in the Talmud. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 210.AS PETER SCHAfer informs us in this important, powerful, and absorbing volume, Christian anti-Semitism and supersessionism on the one hand and Jewish apologetics on the other have marred earlier scholarly attempts to study Jesus 's portrayal in the Talmud. Most misguided, however, are those scholars, chief among th…
Shimon ben Laqish, Rabbi
Rabbi Shimon ben Laqish was one of the most important Palestinian Amoraim. Like Rabbi Johanan ( see Johanan, Rabbi), with whom he routinely dialogued, he flourished in Tiberias, one of the major cities in Palestine, with a heavy concentration of Rabbis.
Minim (rabbinic appellation of “heretics”)
Early Palestinian rabbinic sources (second to third century CE ) urge avoidance of minim (heretics), contact with whom is depicted as dangerous but sought after because of their skill as healers and the attractiveness of their “words.”
Johanan, Rabbi
Rabbi Johanan lived in Tiberias, a Galilean city with a relatively large rabbinic population. He has aptly been described as the most prominent Palestinian Amora who ever lived (Hyman 1910: 653). The most obvious proof of this claim is the fact that he is mentioned more frequently in classical rabbinic literature than any other Palestinian Amora. In fact, Talmudic sources suggest that the Palestinian rabbinic community in the late third and early…
Migrating Tales
This book 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 deg…
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians
The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. The studies in this volume encompass a diverse array of topics concerning these religious communities inhabiting the Sasanian Empire. Some include the Roman East in their deliberations. Most, however, deal with the interaction of one or other religious community based in the Sasanian Empire with the dominant religion of the empire, Zoroa…
The Bavli, the Roman East, and Mesopotamian Christianity
The Bavli, the Roman East, and Mesopotamian Christianity Richard Kalmin Scholarly study of the Persian nexus of the Bavli began approximately a century and a half ago, but this study has entered a new stage of methodological rigor and sophistication during the past two decades. In the tremendous enthusiasm for the study of Bavli in its Persian context, however, some scholars have forgotten the obvious point that it is essential to use all of the …
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