Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests

Mokhtarian, Jason Sion

doi:10.1525/california/9780520286207.001.0001

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“…Some scholars have also revisited the historical implications of sources that bear upon Zoroastrian persecutions (Kalmin, 2008), Jewish-Zoroastrian polemics (Ahdut, 1999;Shaked, 1990), and the role of the Jewish Exilarch (Herman, 2012a). From a more cultural angle, there are a number of discrete studies focused upon particular garments (Kiel, 2012), practices (Herman, 2012c and, norms (Elman, 2004a), and the depiction of specific social groups (Mokhtarian, 2015) within these literatures. We also find studies devoted to specific historical characters in rabbinic literature, such as King David (Herman, 2012b) and King Herod (Rubenstein, 2014), as well as a number of articles (and an entire book) concentrating on issues of sex and sexuality (Elman, 2007;Kiel, 2016;Secunda, 2012 and.…”

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The Babylonian Talmud in its cultural context

Goldstone

2019

Religion Compass

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The Babylonian Talmud is a foundational work for the development of Jewish law and a centerpiece for the study of rabbinic literature. One of the fastest growing trends in the academic study of the Talmud is the contextualization of this text against the background of Greco–Roman, Sasaniageneration of Talmudic studiesn Persian, and Zoroastrian, as well as Syriac and Christian works. This article surveys the history of the study of the Babylonian Talmud in light of a variety of cultural contexts and provides a close look at some of the major products of this line of research.

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