LEADER 04574nam 2200925 450 001 9910791006403321 005 20210421214347.0 010 $a0-520-38318-4 010 $a0-520-95899-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520958999 035 $a(CKB)2550000001334046 035 $a(EBL)1711020 035 $a(OCoLC)884725686 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001289331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11724596 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11307691 035 $a(PQKB)10758214 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000986066 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37633 035 $a(DE-B1597)518723 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520958999 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1711020 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10898576 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL630529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1711020 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001334046 100 $a20140810h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMigrating tales $ethe Talmud's narratives and their historical context /$fRichard Kalmin 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (307 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-27725-2 311 0 $a1-306-99278-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tManuscripts and Early Editions --$tIntroduction --$t1. "Manasseh Sawed Isaiah with a Saw of Wood": An Ancient Legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Persian Sources --$t2. R. Shimon bar Yohai Meets St. Bartholomew: Peripatetic Traditions in Late Antique Judaism and Christianity East of Syria --$t3. The Miracle of the Septuagint in Ancient Rabbinic and Christian Literature --$t4. The Demons in Solomon's Temple --$t5. Zechariah and the Bubbling Blood: An Ancient Tradition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Literature --$t6. Pharisees --$t7. Astrology --$t8. The Alexander Romance --$tSummary and Conclusions --$tBibliography --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex of Primary Sources 330 $aMigrating 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. 606 $aNarration in rabbinical literature 610 $aancient greek literature. 610 $aancient history. 610 $aancient literature. 610 $aancient mesopotamian literature. 610 $aancient persian literature. 610 $aancient syriac literature. 610 $aantiquity. 610 $ababylonian rabbinic literature. 610 $ababylonian talmud. 610 $abavli. 610 $achristian roman empire. 610 $achristianity. 610 $acultural context. 610 $agemara. 610 $ajewish cultural life. 610 $ajewish history. 610 $ajewish religious law. 610 $ajewish theology. 610 $ajudaism. 610 $aliterary. 610 $amiddle ages. 610 $amishnah. 610 $arabbinic judaism. 610 $arabbinic stories. 610 $areligion. 610 $atalmud. 615 0$aNarration in rabbinical literature. 676 $a296.1/2067 700 $aKalmin$b Richard Lee$0887412 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791006403321 996 $aMigrating tales$93718949 997 $aUNINA