Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Putting Babylon back into the Babylonian Talmud
Yehuda Mirsky reports on efforts to study the Persian context of the Babylonian Talmud, and tells that it's a promising line of inquiry.There's even a book about it, though it's a bit pricey and isn't readily available anyway: Talmud in Its Iranian Context (Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism).
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The link to the review
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2010/11/2/main-feature/1/the-persian-talmud
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Has there been much recent scholarship on the Palestinian Talmud?
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From Berlin gangland to IDF Spokesman
Babylon is Iraq, but he means under he Sassanids?
article on Steinsaltz's Englsih translation and commentary
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=193995
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