Migrating Tales

The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context

Bibliographic Data

ID20001034
AuthorsRichard Kalmin (corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages312
Publication date2014-09-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMigrating Tales (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520277250.001.0001
OpenAlexW4232241810
Open LibraryOL27549311M
ISBN9780520277250
LanguageEN
Citations received4

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 degree unimagined by earlier scholars. The book demonstrates the extent to which rabbinic Babylonia was part of the Mediterranean world of late antiquity and part of the emerging but never fully realized cultural unity forming during this period in Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and western Persia. It recognizes that the Bavli contains remarkable diversity, incorporating motifs derived from the cultures of contemporaneous religious and social groups

Ancient history · Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Judaism · Late Antiquity · Literature · Mesopotamia · Middle East · Palestine · Persian · Talmud · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Analys och tolkning · Babylonischer Talmud · History and criticism · Kultur · Narration (rhetoric) · Narration in rabbinical literature · Narrativ · Narrative Criticism · Rabbinical literature · Rabbinical literature, history and criticism · Rabbinische Literatur · Talmud bavli

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