The Babylonian Talmud And Late Antique Book Culture
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Author |
: Monika Amsler |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2023-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009297332 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009297333 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture by : Monika Amsler
A new theory of the Talmud's formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.
Author |
: Yishai Kiel |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2016-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107155510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107155517 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud by : Yishai Kiel
This book explores sex and sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud within the context of competing cultural discourses, for students of comparative religion.
Author |
: Markham J. Geller |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2015-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004304895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004304894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud by : Markham J. Geller
The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved.
Author |
: Sara Ronis |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2022-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520386174 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520386175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Demons in the Details by : Sara Ronis
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.
Author |
: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2019-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107195363 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107195365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity by : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.
Author |
: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2004-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801881398 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801881390 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud by : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter Palestinian Talmud (the Yerushalmi) and who had passed on their teachings to students individually or in small and informal groups, the anonymous redactors of the Bavli were part of a large institution with a distinctive, isolated, and largely undocumented culture. The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud explores the cultural world of these Babylonian rabbis and their students through the prism of the stories they included in the Bavli, showing how their presentation of earlier rabbinic teachings was influenced by their own values and practices. Among the topics explored in this broad-ranging work are the hierarchical structure of the rabbinic academy, the use of dialectics in teaching, the functions of violence and shame within the academy, the role of lineage in rabbinic leadership, the marital and family lives of the rabbis, and the relationship between the rabbis and the rest of the Jewish population. This book provides a unique and new perspective on the formative years of rabbinic Judaism and will be essential reading for all students of the Talmud.
Author |
: Gwynn Kessler |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 604 |
Release |
: 2020-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119113973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119113970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism by : Gwynn Kessler
An innovative approach to the study of ten centuries of Jewish culture and history A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various manifestations of their religious and cultural expressions from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. Presenting a collection of 30 original essays written by noted scholars in the field, this companion provides an expansive examination of ancient Jewish life, identity, gender, sacred and domestic spaces, literature, language, and theological questions throughout late ancient Jewish history and historiography. Editors Gwynn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm situate the volume within Late Antiquity, enabling readers to rethink traditional chronological, geographic, and political boundaries. The Companion incorporates a broad methodology, drawing from social history, material history and culture, and literary studies to consider the diverse forms and facets of Jews and Judaism within multiple contexts of place, culture, and history. Divided into five parts, thematically-organized essays discuss topics including the spaces where Jews lived, worked, and worshiped, Jewish languages and literatures, ethnicities and identities, and questions about gender and the body central to Jewish culture and Judaism. Offering original scholarship and fresh insights on late ancient Jewish history and culture, this unique volume: Offers a one-volume exploration of “second temple,” “Greco-Roman,” and “rabbinic” periods and sources Explores Jewish life across most of the geographic places where Jews or Judaeans were known to have lived Features original maps of areas cited in every essay, including maps of Jewish settlement throughout Late Antiquity Includes an outline of major historical events, further readings, and full references A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE is a valuable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Jewish studies, religion, literature, and ethnic identity, as well as general readers with interest in Jewish history, world religions, Classics, and Late Antiquity.
Author |
: Catherine Hezser |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 746 |
Release |
: 2024-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315280950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315280957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity by : Catherine Hezser
This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for future research. Based on both Jewish and non-Jewish literary and material sources, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach involving historians of ancient Judaism, scholars of rabbinic literature, archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, and Byzantinists. Developments within Jewish society and culture are viewed within the respective regional, political, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts in which they took place. Special focus is given to the impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on Jews, from administrative, legal, social, and cultural points of view. The contributors examine how the confrontation with Christianity changed Jewish practices, perceptions, and organizational structures, such as, for example, the emergence of local Jewish communities around synagogues as central religious spaces. Special chapters are devoted to the eastern and western Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity, especially Sasanian Persia but also Roman Italy, Egypt, Syria and Arabia, North Africa, and Asia Minor, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the situation and life experiences of Jews and Judaism during this period. The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity is a critical and methodologically sophisticated survey of current scholarship aimed primarily at students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Study of Religions, Patristics, Classics, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Iranology, History of Art, and Archaeology. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Judaism and Jewish history.
Author |
: Jae Hee Han |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2023-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009297745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009297740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East by : Jae Hee Han
Offers an interdisciplinary account of prophecy as a topic of discourse among various late antique Near Eastern communities. Against assumptions that prophecy ceased in the past, this book argues that it remained a topic of discourse among various Near Eastern communities.
Author |
: Monika Amsler |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 479 |
Release |
: 2023-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111011042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111011046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity by : Monika Amsler
Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of knowledge production in laboratories (e.g., Latour/Woolgar 1979; Knorr-Cetina 1981) have identified factors that affect processes that lead to the generation of scientific data and their subsequent interpretation, such as money, training and curriculum, location and infrastructure, biography-based knowledge and talent, and chance. More recent theories of knowledge construction have further identified different forms of knowledge, such as tacit, intuitive, explicit, personal, and social knowledge. These theoretical frameworks and critical terms can help reveal and clarify the processes that led to ancient data gathering, information and knowledge production. The contributors use late-antique hermeneutical associations as means to explore intuitive or even tacit knowledge; they appreciate mistakes as a platform to study the value of personal knowledge and its premises; they think about rows and tables, letter exchanges, and schools as platforms of distributed cognition; they consider walls as venues for social knowledge production; and rethink the value of social knowledge in scholarly genealogies—then and now.