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Judaism and Zoroastrianism at the Dusk of Late Antiquity
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : South Florida Studies in the H |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Describes and contrasts how two major religions approached the problem of writing down the traditions of the ages. Just before 700 A. D., Judaic sages compiled the Talmud of Babylonia; just after 800 A. D., Zoroastrian priests compiled the Pahlavi books. In both cases, the projects codified thought and became authorities for the later development o
Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud
Author | : Yishai Kiel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1316797260 |
Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian Talmud, Yishai Kiel explores rabbinic discussions of sex in light of cultural assumptions and dispositions that pervaded the cultures of late antiquity and particularly the Iranian world. By negotiating the Iranian context of the rabbinic discussion alongside the Christian backdrop, this groundbreaking volume presents a balanced and nuanced portrayal of the rabbinic discourse on sexuality and situates rabbinic discussions of sex more broadly at the crossroads of late antique cultures. The study is divided into two thematic sections: the first centers on the broader aspects of rabbinic discourse on sexuality while the second hones in on rabbinic discussions of sexual prohibitions and the classification of permissible and prohibited partnerships, with particular attention to rabbinic discussions of incest. Essential reading for scholars and graduate students of Judaic studies, early Christianity, and Iranian studies, as well as those interested in religious studies and comparative religion.
Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism in Talmudic Babylonia
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : Neusner Titles in Brown Judaic |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
The Talmud's Red Fence
Author | : Shai Secunda |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2020-07-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198856822 |
The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation. It argues that the practice and development of menstrual rituals in Babylonian Judaism was a product of the religious terrain of the Sasanian Empire, where groups like Syriac Christians, Mandaeans, Zoroastrians, and Jews defined themselves in part based on how they approached menstrual impurity. It demonstrates that menstruation was highly charged in Babylonian Judaism and Sasanian Zoroastrian, where menstrual discharge was conceived of as highly productive female seed yet at the same time as stemming from either primordial sin (Eve eating from the tree) or evil (Ahrimen's kiss). It argues that competition between rabbis and Zoroastrians concerning menstrual purity put pressure on the Talmudic system, for instance in the unusual development of an expert diagnostic system of discharges. It shows how Babylonian rabbis seriously considered removing women from the home during the menstrual period, as Mandaeans and Zoroastrians did, yet in the end deemed this possibility too "heretical." Finally, it examines three cases of Babylonian Jewish women initiating menstrual practices that carved out autonomous female space. One of these, the extension of menstrual impurity beyond the biblically mandated seven days, is paralleled in both Zoroastrian Middle Persian and Mandaic texts. Ultimately, Talmudic menstrual purity is shown to be driven by difference in its binary structure of pure and impure; in gendered terms; on a social axis between Jews and Sasanian non-Jewish communities; and textually in the way the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds took shape in late antiquity.
A History of the Talmud
Author | : David C. Kraemer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108661769 |
It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the Talmud in Judaism and beyond. Yet its difficult language and its assumptions, so distant from modern sensibilities, render it inaccessible to most readers. In this volume, David C. Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise as a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism with the lessons of his experience as director of one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. Tracing the Talmud's origins and its often controversial status through history, he bases his work on the most recent historical and literary scholarship while making no assumptions concerning the reader's prior knowledge. Kraemer also examines the continuities and shifts of the Talmud over time and space. His work will provide scholars and students with an unprecedented understanding of one of the world's great classics and the spirit that animates it.
The Iranian Talmud
Author | : Shai Secunda |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812245709 |
The Iranian Talmud reexamines the Babylonian Talmud—one of Judaism's most central texts—in the light of Persian literature and culture, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview to the vibrant world of pre-Islamic Iran that shaped the Bavli.
Talmudic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Babylonia |
ISBN | : 9789004044531 |
Christianity in Talmud and Midrash
Author | : Robert Travers Herford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : |
Life and Teachings of Zoroaster, the Great Persian
Author | : Loren Harper Whitney |
Publisher | : Trieste Publishing |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780649632862 |
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