The Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world / edited by Geoffrey Herman, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herman, Geoffrey, 1967- editor.

Rubenstein, Jeffrey L., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 362.

Brown Judaic studies ; number 362

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talmud--Legends.

Talmud.

Aggada--History and criticism.

Aggada.

Iraq--Civilization--To 634.

Iraq.

Civilization.

Iran--Civilization--To 640.

Iran.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Zoroastrianism.

Zoroastrianism.

Zoroastrianism--Relations--Judaism.

Genre:

Legends.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 393 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Geoffrey Herman, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

A Demonic Servant in Rav Papa's Household: Demons as Subjects in the Mesopotamian Talmud / Sara Ronis

Narrative Bricolage and Cultural Hybrids in Rabbinic Babylonia: On the Narratives of Seduction and the Topos of Light / Reuven Kiperwasser

"Meishan Is Dead": On the Historical Contexts of the Bavli's Representations of the Jews in Southern Babylonia / Yakir Paz

"In Honor of the House of Caesar": Attitudes to the Kingdom in the Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and Other Sasanian Sources / Geoffrey Herman

Clusters of Iranian Loanwords in Talmudic Folkore: The Chapter of the Pious (b. Taʻanit 18b-26a) in its Sasanian Context / Jason Mokhtarian

Gaze and Counter-Gaze: Textuality and Contextuality in the Anecdote of Rav Assi and the Roman (b. Baba Metsiʻa 28b) / Shai Secunda

Martyrdom in the Persian Martyr Acts and in the Babylonian Talmud / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

A Persian Anti-Martyr Act: The Death of Rabba bar Naḥmani in Light of the Syriac Persian Martyr Acts / Simcha Gross

"Fool, Look to the End of the Verse": b. Ḥullin 87a and Its Christian Background / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

Dualistic Elements in Babylonian Aggada / Yaakov Elman

First Man, First Bovine: Talmudic Mythology in Context / Yishai Kiel

Mourner's Kaddish, The Prequel: The Sassanian Period Backstory That Gave Birth to the Medieval Prayer for the Dead / David Brodsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Online version: Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world

ISBN:

9781946527103

1946527106

Publisher Number:

99986973752

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