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Author:

Kalmin, Richard Lee.

Title:

Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine / Richard Kalmin.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xiv, 285 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425
Jews--Babylonia--Babylonia--Intellectual life.
Jews--Babylonia--Babylonia--Social conditions.
Rabbis--Babylonia--Babylonia--Office.
Tannaim
Amoraim
Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jews--Persecutions
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
Babylonia--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and indexes.

Contents:

Roman persecutions of Jews -- Kings, priests, and sages -- Jewish sources of the Second Temple Period in rabbinic compilations of late antiquity -- Anxious rabbis and mocking non-rabbis -- Idolatry in late antique Babylonia -- Persian persecutions of Jews -- Josephus in Sasanian Babylonia.

ISBN:

9780195306194
0195306198 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64427564

LCCN:

2006042518

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)