Migrating tales : the Talmud's narratives and their historical context / Richard Kalmin.

Migrating tales : the Talmud's narratives and their historical context /

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 tha...

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Main Author: Kalmin, Richard Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Talmud > Criticism, Narrative.
Narration in rabbinical literature.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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