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Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and Their Historical Context
Richard Kalmin
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Description for Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and Their Historical Context
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Migrating 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 ... Read more
Migrating 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
621 g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520277250
SKU
V9780520277250
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About Richard Kalmin
Richard Kalmin is Theodore R. Racoosin Chair of Rabbinic Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of the award-winning Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine and several other books about the literature and history of the Jews of late antiquity. The research and writing of Migrating Tales was supported by a grant from the National Endowment ... Read more
Reviews for Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and Their Historical Context
"The rabbinic gems unearthed by the author's questions/answers/reflections mark the beginning of a venture into the place of rabbinic folk narrative in the culture of the ancient Mediterranean world."
Z. Garber CHOICE "Kalmin has provided scholars of late antique Judaism with a valuable resource for thinking about Jewish culture and ideas."
Dvora E. Weisberg H-Net "This is a ... Read more
Z. Garber CHOICE "Kalmin has provided scholars of late antique Judaism with a valuable resource for thinking about Jewish culture and ideas."
Dvora E. Weisberg H-Net "This is a ... Read more