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response of Palestinian Jewry that began to demand total commitment to the Land of Israel and, for the first time in Jewish History, during the talmudic period, attempted to declare life in the diaspora as illegitimate. It appeared that the two centres of Jewish life, in Palestine and in Babylonia, were on a collision course that would likely result in some sort of mutual excommunication. This excommunication, however, did not occur, and during the next few centuries solutions were found which enabled the Babylonian community to develop and thrive, while at the same time remaining loyal to the Land of Israel and even continuing to recognize the religious primacy of that centre (at least most of the time). It is to the study of these matters that Gafni devotes the next two chapters, showing how both centres maintained a fragile relationship on matters such as burial or reinterment in Israel, Patriarch and Exilarch, calendar, court systems, rabbinical authority and the like. There is more to it, though, than just the question of the Jewish understanding of dispersion. The major portions of Gafni's book are based on rabbinic sources and the use of such material for historical research

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Author

Alison G. Salvesen

Publisher

Journal of Jewish Studies

Published

1997

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)