Title: Migrating tales : the Talmud's narratives and their historical context /
Authors: Kalmin, Richard Lee.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Talmud Criticism, Narrative.; Talmud; Babylonischer Talmud; Talmud Bavli Criticism, Narrative.; Talmud analys och tolkning.; Narration in rabbinical literature.; Narration in rabbinical literature; Kultur; Rabbinische Literatur; Narrativ; Narration in rabbinical literature.; Naher Osten
Contents: "Manasseh sawed Isaiah with a saw of wood": an ancient legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Persian sources -- R. Shimon bar Yohai meets St. Bartholomew: peripatetic traditions in late antique Judaism and Christianity East of Syria -- The miracle of the Septuagint in ancient rabbinic and Christian literature -- The demons in Solomon's Temple -- Zechariah and the bubbling blood: an ancient tradition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literature -- Pharisees -- Astrology -- The Alexander romance.