The Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world / edited by Geoffrey Herman, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein.
Contributor(s): Herman, Geoffrey [editor.]
| Rubenstein, Jeffrey L [editor.]
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TextSeries: Brown Judaic studies: no. 362.Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxxv, 393 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781946527080; 1946527084; 9781946527097; 1946527092Subject(s): Talmud -- Legends | Aggada -- History and criticism | Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634 | Iran -- Civilization -- To 640 | Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity | Christianity and other religions -- Judaism | Judaism -- Relations -- Zoroastrianism | Zoroastrianism -- Relations -- JudaismDDC classification: 296.1/27606 LOC classification: BM516.5 | .A464 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Geoffrey Herman, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- A Demonic Servant in Rav Papa's Household: Demons as Subjects in the Mesopotamian Talmud / Sara Ronis -- Narrative Bricolage and Cultural Hybrids in Rabbinic Babylonia: On the Narratives of Seduction and the Topos of Light / Reuven Kiperwasser -- "Meishan Is Dead": On the Historical Contexts of the Bavli's Representations of the Jews in Southern Babylonia / Yakir Paz -- "In Honor of the House of Caesar": Attitudes to the Kingdom in the Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and Other Sasanian Sources / Geoffrey Herman -- Clusters of Iranian Loanwords in Talmudic Folkore: The Chapter of the Pious (b. Taʻanit 18b-26a) in its Sasanian Context / Jason Mokhtarian -- Gaze and Counter-Gaze: Textuality and Contextuality in the Anecdote of Rav Assi and the Roman (b. Baba Metsiʻa 28b) / Shai Secunda -- Martyrdom in the Persian Martyr Acts and in the Babylonian Talmud / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- A Persian Anti-Martyr Act: The Death of Rabba bar Naḥmani in Light of the Syriac Persian Martyr Acts / Simcha Gross -- "Fool, Look to the End of the Verse": b. Ḥullin 87a and Its Christian Background / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal -- Dualistic Elements in Babylonian Aggada / Yaakov Elman -- First Man, First Bovine: Talmudic Mythology in Context / Yishai Kiel -- Mourner's Kaddish, The Prequel: The Sassanian Period Backstory That Gave Birth to the Medieval Prayer for the Dead / David Brodsky.