Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

Author: Simcha Gross

Publisher:

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1009280511

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From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , the Sasanian Empire has served as a backdrop to a decidedly parochial Jewish story, having little if any direct impact on Babylonian Jewish life and especially the rabbis. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity advances a radically different understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and Sasanian rule. Building upon recent scholarship, Simcha Gross portrays a more immanent model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves. Babylonian Jews realized their traditions, teachings, and social position within the political, social, religious, and cultural conditions generated by Sasanian rule.

Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon
Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon

Author: Uri Gabbay

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783161528330

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"The articles included in this book deal with a diverse period of one thousand years, from the Judean exile to Babylon until the fall of the Sasanian Empire. However, one thing is common throughout. All of the studies deal with encounters, especially intellectual encounters, that occurred in Mesopotamia, mainly under Iranian (Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian) rule. While Mesopotamia was an area of contact between many cultures and religions, three are the focus of this book - ancient Babylonian, ancient and late antique Iranian, and classical Jewish."--Introduction, p. [1].

Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine
Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine

Author: Richard Kalmin

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2006-10-26

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0195306198

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"In this book Richard Kalmin offers a thorough reexamination of rabbinic culture in late antique Babylonia. He shows how this culture was shaped in part by Persia on the one hand and by Roman Palestine on the other. Kalmin also offers new interpretations of several rabbinic texts of late antiquity."--BOOK JACKET.

Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud
Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud

Author: Yishai Kiel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-13

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1107155517

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This book explores sex and sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud within the context of competing cultural discourses, for students of comparative religion.

Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine
Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine

Author: Richard Lee Kalmin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781435619128

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'The Babylonian Talmud' is the most important text of Rabbinic Judaism. This book probes the fault lines between Palestinian and Babylonian sources, and demonstrates how the differences between them reflect the divergent social attitudes of these two societies.

The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

Author: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-05-28

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1139827421

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This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.