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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784999303321

Autore

Hayes Christine Elizabeth

Titolo

Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds : accounting for halakhic difference in selected sugyot from Tractate Avodah zarah / / Christine Elizabeth Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997

ISBN

0-19-773836-2

1-280-52824-9

0-19-535682-9

1-4294-0051-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages)

Disciplina

296.12

296.124

Soggetti

Rabbinical literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Manuscripts and Early Editions; Abbreviations; Transliteration System; Introduction; I: INTERNAL CAUSES OF HALAKHIC DIFFERENCE (l): TEXTUAL ISSUES; II: INTERNAL CAUSES OF HALAKHIC DIFFERENCE (ll): HERMENEUTICAL CAUSES; III: EXTERNAL CAUSES OF HALAKHIC DIFFERENCE: HALAKHAH AND HISTORY; Conclusion; Appendix: Response to Jacob Neusner; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Citations; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work addresses the the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. AD 370) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. AD 650). It analyzes selected divergences between parallel passages of the two Talmuds.