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Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud about?
This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of striking parallels and connections between Christian monastic texts (the Apophthegmata Patrum or 'The Sayings of the Desert Fathers') and Babylonian Talmudic traditions. The importance of the monastic movement in the Persian Empire, during the time of the composition and redaction of the Babylonian Talmud, fostered a literary connection between the two religious populations. The shared literary elements in the literatures of these two elite religious communities sheds new light on the surprisingly inclusive nature of the Talmudic corpora and on the non-polemical nature of elite Jewish-Christian literary relations in late antique Persia.
Who reads Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781107471993
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, Anthropology