Tales of the Neighborhood
Subtitle: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 2002
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780520234543
Subjects: Folklore & Mythology; Sociology; Folklore; Galilee; History and criticism; Israel; Jews; Legends, Jewish; Rabbinical literature; Literature: Folklore/Mythology
First sentence: This short book seeks to explore the ways in which we can learn something about the relationship between literature and reality in Late Antique Jewish cultured by reading the texts that we call Rabbinic literature, the Talmud and the Midrash.