Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine
- ISBN-10
- 0195306198
- ISBN-13
- 9780195306194
- Category
- Bibles
- Pages
- 285
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10-26
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Author
- Richard Kalmin
Description
'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.
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