Shai Secunda

The Iranian Talmud

Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context

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Produktbeschreibung

Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780812223736
• ISBN-10: 081222373X
• Artikelnr.: 44827491

Autorenporträt

Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Abbreviations, Citations, and Terminology
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Sea of Talmud and Its Shore: The Talmud and Other Sasanian
Remains
Chapter 2. In the Temple and Synagogue: Locating Jewish-Zoroastrian
Encounters in Sasanian Mesopotamia
Chapter 3. Constructing "Them": Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Discourses of the
"Other"
Chapter 4. Closer Than "They" May Appear: Alternative Descriptions of
Sasanians and Zoroastrian Priests in the Bavli
Chapter 5. In Iran: Reading the Talmud in Its Iranian Context
In Lieu of a Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index