Opening book details…
Can I read The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World (Brown Judaic Studies) on EtoBox?
The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World (Brown Judaic Studies) by Geoffrey Herman;Jeffrey L. Rubenstein; Jeffrey L. Rubenstein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World (Brown Judaic Studies) about?
**Essays that explore the rich engagement of the Talmud with its cultural world** The Babylonian Talmud (Bavli), the great compilation of Jewish law edited in the late Sasanian era (sixth–seventh century CE), also incorporates a great deal of aggada, that is, nonlegal material, including interpretations of the Bible, stories, folk sayings, and prayers. The Talmud s aggadic traditions often echo conversations with the surrounding cultures of the Persians, Eastern Christians, Manichaeans, Mandaeans, and the ancient Babylonians, and others. The essays in this volume analyze Bavli aggada to reveal this rich engagement of the Talmud with its cultural world. **Features:** * A detailed analysis of the different conceptions of martyrdom in the Talmud as opposed to the Eastern Christian martyr accounts * Illustration of the complex ways rabbinic Judaism absorbed Christian and Zoroastrian theological ideas * Demonstration of the presence of Persian-Zoroastrian royal and mythological motifs in talmudic sources
Who reads The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World (Brown Judaic Studies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Geoffrey Herman;Jeffrey L. Rubenstein; Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
- Publisher
- SBL Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781946527080
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Christian, Religion
More by Geoffrey Herman;Jeffrey L. Rubenstein; Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Browse all works by Geoffrey Herman;Jeffrey L. Rubenstein; Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Similar books
- The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in its Sasanian Context — Shai Secunda
- The Mind of the Talmud : An Intellectual History of the Bavli — David Charles Kraemer (1990)
- Koren Talmud Bavli, Noé Edition, Vol 21: Gittin, Hebrew/English, Large, Color (Koren Talmud Bavli the Noé Edition) (English and Hebrew Edition) — commentary by Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) (2015)
- Buber On God And The Perfect Man (brown Judaic Studies) — Pamela Vermes, (1980)
- David Kimhi: The Man and the Commentaries (Harvard Judaic Monographs, 1) — Frank Ephraim Talmage; De Gruyter (1975)
- Creation and Composition : the Contribution of the Bavli Redactors (Stammaim) to the Aggada — Jeffrey L Rubenstein; New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (2020)