Talmudic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia
Subtitle: essays and studies
By: by Jacob Neusner.
Series: Studies in Judaism in late antiquity ;; v. 14
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jews -- Iraq -- Babylonia.; Rabbis -- Iraq -- Babylonia.; Babylonia -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"These papers carry forward the discussion ... in my History of the Jews in Babylonia."
Table of contents: title: The Babylonian Talmud as a historical document.; title: Archaeology and the study of Babylonian Judaism.; title: The religious uses of history.; title: The phenomenon of the rabbi.; title: The rabbi and the magus.; title: The rabbi and the Jewish community.; title: The rabbi and the exilarch.; title: How much Iranian in Jewish Babylonia?; title: Babylonian Jewry and Shapur II's persecution of Christianity from 339 to 379.