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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463977503321

Autore

Siegal Michal Bar-Asher <1979->

Titolo

Early Christian monastic literature and the Babylonian Talmud / / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-46091-3

1-139-89098-0

1-107-45910-9

1-107-47303-9

1-107-47199-0

1-107-46489-7

1-107-46839-6

1-139-14941-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

271

Soggetti

Monasticism and religious orders - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Judaism - Relations - Christianity

Christianity and other religions - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Christianity in the Babylonian Talmud: an introductory discussion -- Monasticism in the Persian Empire -- The Apophthegmata Patrum and rabbinic literature: form, style, and common themes -- The Apophthegmata Patrum and rabbinic literature: narrative -- The making of a monk-rabbi: the stories of R. Shimon bar Yoḥai in the cave -- Repentant whore, repentant rabbi: the story of Elazar b. Dordya.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of striking parallels and connections between Christian monastic texts (the Apophthegmata Patrum or 'The Sayings of the Desert Fathers') and Babylonian Talmudic traditions. The importance of the monastic movement in the Persian Empire, during the time of the composition and redaction of the



Babylonian Talmud, fostered a literary connection between the two religious populations. The shared literary elements in the literatures of these two elite religious communities sheds new light on the surprisingly inclusive nature of the Talmudic corpora and on the non-polemical nature of elite Jewish-Christian literary relations in late antique Persia.