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This volume collects several articles by scholar Uri Zur on various areas in the field of Jewish studies. Topics discussed include different types of structure in Talmudic texts from a literary point of view, the study of the Aramaic language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a linguistic and interpretive perspective, the redaction of sugyot in the Talmud Bavli analyzed from a textual point of view, and matters of halakha and halakhic rules. The author also examines contemporary topics such as modern Judaism in Israel and peacemaking efforts grounded in the Pentateuch and Jewish tradition.

Aramaic. --- Biblical criticism. --- Biblical interpretation. --- Biblical translation. --- Gemara. --- Hebrew. --- Hillel. --- Israel. --- Jewish law. --- Jewish studies. --- Jewish tradition. --- Judaism. --- Modern Orthodox Judaism. --- Pentateuch. --- Talmud Bavli;Eruvin;criticism. --- Talmud. --- ancient texts. --- contemporary Judaism. --- form-stylistic design. --- halakha. --- interpretation. --- linguistics. --- peace. --- peacemaking. --- rabbinic literature. --- redaction. --- sugyot. --- tannaitic text. --- traditional Jews. --- tripartite structure. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Eruvin. --- Talmud Bavli. --- criticism.

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Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. In this nuanced work, Richard Kalmin argues that non-Jewish literature deriving from the eastern Roman provinces is a crucially important key to interpreting Babylonian rabbinic literature, to a degree unimagined by earlier scholars. Kalmin demonstrates the extent to which rabbinic Babylonia was part of the Mediterranean world of late antiquity and part of the emerging but never fully realized cultural unity forming during this period in Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and western Persia. Kalmin recognizes that the Bavli contains remarkable diversity, incorporating motifs derived from the cultures of contemporaneous religious and social groups. Looking closely at the intimate relationship between narratives of the Bavli and of the Christian Roman Empire, Migrating Tales brings the history of Judaism and Jewish culture into the ambit of the ancient world as a whole.

Narration in rabbinical literature. --- RELIGION --- HISTORY --- Judaism --- General. --- Ancient --- Talmud --- Talmud. --- Criticism, Narrative. --- Talmud -- Criticism, Narrative. --- Narration in rabbinical literature --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- History --- Talmud Bavli --- Babylonian Talmud --- Talmud, Babylonian --- Talmud Vavilonskiĭ --- Talmoed, Babylonische --- Babylonische Talmoed --- Shas --- Shishah sedarim --- Talmud of Babylonia --- Talmud de Babilonia --- Talmud Babli --- Talmouth --- Talmod --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rabbinical literature --- ancient greek literature. --- ancient history. --- ancient literature. --- ancient mesopotamian literature. --- ancient persian literature. --- ancient syriac literature. --- antiquity. --- babylonian rabbinic literature. --- babylonian talmud. --- bavli. --- christian roman empire. --- christianity. --- cultural context. --- gemara. --- jewish cultural life. --- jewish history. --- jewish religious law. --- jewish theology. --- judaism. --- literary. --- middle ages. --- mishnah. --- rabbinic judaism. --- rabbinic stories. --- religion. --- talmud.