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Migrating Tales - The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context (Paperback)
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Migrating Tales - The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context (Paperback)
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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 fully realized cultural unity forming during
this period in Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and western Persia.
Kalmin recognizes that the Bavli contains remarkable diversity,
incorporating motifs derived from the cultures of contemporaneous
religious and social groups. Looking closely at the intimate
relationship between narratives of the Bavli and of the Christian
Roman Empire, Migrating Tales brings the history of Judaism and
Jewish culture into the ambit of the ancient world as a whole.
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