Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine /
[Book]
Richard Kalmin
1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and indexes
Roman persecutions of Jews -- Kings, priests, and sages -- Jewish sources of the Second Temple Period in rabbinic compilations of late antiquity -- Anxious rabbis and mocking non-rabbis -- Idolatry in late antique Babylonia -- Persian persecutions of the Jews -- Josephus in Sasanian Babylonia
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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
Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine.