Encounters by the rivers of Babylon
Subtitle: scholarly conversations between Jews, Iranians, and Babylonians in Antiquity
By: edited by Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda
Series: Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 160; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 160.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9783161528330
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Talmud; Talmud de Babylone; Jews; Middle Eastern literature; 11.12 Mesopotamian religions; Joden; Juifs; Civilization; Talmud Bavli; Criticism, interpretation; Antiquités; Iraniërs; History
Description: "The articles included in this book deal with a diverse period of one thousand years, from the Judean exile to Babylon until the fall of the Sasanian Empire. However, one thing is common throughout. All of the studies deal with encounters, especially intellectual encounters, that occurred in Mesopotamia, mainly under Iranian (Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian) rule. While Mesopotamia was an area of contact between many cultures and religions, three are the focus of this book - ancient Babylonian, ancient and late antique Iranian, and classical Jewish."--Introduction, p. [1].
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Uri Gabbay and -- Shai Secunda; title: Contrasting intellectual trajectories: Iran and Israel in Mesopotamia  -- Yaakov Elman; title: Judeans in Babylonia -- updating the dossier  -- Ron Zadok; title: Locating contact in the Babylonian exile: some reflections on tracing Judean-Babylonian encounters in Cuneiform texts  -- Caroline Waerzeggers; title: Jewish jurisdiction within the framework of the Sasanian legal system  -- Maria Macuch; title: Assyriology and Jewish studies in Tel Aviv: Ezekiel among the Babylonian literati  -- Abraham Winitzer; title: Time and culture: Mesopotamian calendars in Jewish sources from the Bible to the Mishnah  -- Jonathan Ben-Dov; title: Old-Babylonian, Middle-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Jewish-Babylonian? Thoughts about transmission modes of Mesopotamian magic through the ages  -- Nathan Wasserman; title: The ancient Mesopotamian motif of kidinnu, "divine protection (of temple cities and their citizens)," in Akkadian and Aramaic magic  -- James Nathan Ford; title: Encounters between Iranian myth and rabbinic mythmakers in the Babylonian Talmud  -- Reuven Kiperwasser and -- Dan D.Y. Sharpira; title: Remarks on Cuneiform scholarship and the Babylonian Talmud  -- Irving L. Finkel; title: Traditionalism and intellectual innovation in a cosmopolitan world: reflections on Babylonian text commentaries from the Achaemenid period  -- Eckart Frahm; title: Actual sense and scriptural intention: literal meaning and its terminology in Akkadian and Hebrew commentaries  -- Uri Gabbay; title: Abar Rōdestān ī Babēl: the Zoroastrian tradition -- the dēn -- in Sasanian and early Islamic times  -- Prods Oktor Skjærvø; title: Rabbinic and Zoroastrian hermeneutics: background and prospects  -- Shai Secunda; title: Shaking impurity: scriptural exegesis and legal innovation in the Babylonian Talmud and Pahlavi literature -- Yishai Kiel.