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Record Nr.

UNISA996248273503316

Autore

Kalmin Richard Lee

Titolo

Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine / / Richard Kalmin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-988558-3

1-4356-1912-9

9786611163181

0-19-804179-9

1-281-16318-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

296.1/206

Soggetti

Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425

Jews - Iraq - Babylonia - Intellectual life

Jews - Iraq - Babylonia - Social conditions

Rabbis - Office - Iraq - Babylonia

Tannaim

Amoraim

Jews - Persecutions

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Babylonia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Roman persecutions of Jews -- Kings, priests, and sages -- Jewish sources of the Second Temple Period in rabbinic compilations of late antiquity -- Anxious rabbis and mocking non-rabbis -- Idolatry in late antique Babylonia -- Persian persecutions of the Jews -- Josephus in Sasanian Babylonia.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Babylonian Talmud' is the most important text of Rabbinic Judaism. This book probes the fault lines between Palestinian and Babylonian sources, and demonstrates how the differences between them reflect the divergent social attitudes of these two societies.