03706nam 2200613 450 991045854720332120210421214347.00-520-95899-310.1525/9780520958999(CKB)2550000001334046(EBL)1711020(OCoLC)884725686(SSID)ssj0001289331(PQKBManifestationID)11724596(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289331(PQKBWorkID)11307691(PQKB)10758214(StDuBDS)EDZ0000986066(MiAaPQ)EBC1711020(MdBmJHUP)muse37633(DE-B1597)518723(DE-B1597)9780520958999(Au-PeEL)EBL1711020(CaPaEBR)ebr10898576(CaONFJC)MIL630529(EXLCZ)99255000000133404620140810h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrMigrating tales the Talmud's narratives and their historical context /Richard KalminOakland, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (307 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27725-2 1-306-99278-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --Manuscripts and Early Editions --Introduction --1. "Manasseh Sawed Isaiah with a Saw of Wood": An Ancient Legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Persian Sources --2. R. Shimon bar Yohai Meets St. Bartholomew: Peripatetic Traditions in Late Antique Judaism and Christianity East of Syria --3. The Miracle of the Septuagint in Ancient Rabbinic and Christian Literature --4. The Demons in Solomon's Temple --5. Zechariah and the Bubbling Blood: An Ancient Tradition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Literature --6. Pharisees --7. Astrology --8. The Alexander Romance --Summary and Conclusions --Bibliography --General Index --Index of Primary SourcesMigrating Tales 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. In this nuanced work, Richard Kalmin argues that non-Jewish literature deriving from the eastern Roman provinces is a crucially important key to interpreting Babylonian rabbinic literature, to a degree unimagined by earlier scholars. Kalmin demonstrates the extent to which rabbinic Babylonia was part of the Mediterranean world of late antiquity and part of the emerging but never fully realized cultural unity forming during this period in Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and western Persia. Kalmin recognizes that the Bavli contains remarkable diversity, incorporating motifs derived from the cultures of contemporaneous religious and social groups. Looking closely at the intimate relationship between narratives of the Bavli and of the Christian Roman Empire, Migrating Tales brings the history of Judaism and Jewish culture into the ambit of the ancient world as a whole.Narration in rabbinical literatureElectronic books.Narration in rabbinical literature.296.1/2067Kalmin Richard Lee887412MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458547203321Migrating tales2448735UNINA