The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780801873881
Subjects: Judaism; Sacred texts; Rabbis; Intellectual life; History; Talmud; Religion - Judaism; Judaism - Talmud; History: World; Judaism - General; Iraq; Jewish - General; History / Jewish; Criticism, Redaction; Talmudic academies; Aggada; Babylonia; History and criticism
First sentence: The Babylonian Talmud or Bavli, the great compilation of rabbinic tradition edited in Sasanid Mesopotamia in the fifth through seventh centuries C.E., is arguably the most important Jewish text.