The Talmud in its Iranian context
By: edited by Carol Bakhos and M. Rahim Shayegan
Series: Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 135 = -- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism -- 135,; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 135.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9783161501876
Subjects: Talmud; Iranian influences; Civilization; Congresses; Talmud bavli; Parsismus
Notes: International conference proceedings, 2007, UCLA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A generation of Talmudic studies  -- David Goodblatt; title: Toward an intellectual history of Sasanian law : an intergenerational dispute in Hērbedestān 9 and its rabinnic and Roman parallels  -- Yaakov Elman; title: Persia in light of the Babylonian Talmud : echoes of contemporary society and politics : hargbed and bidaxš  -- Geoffrey Herman; title: Talmudic attitudes toward dream interpreters : preliminary thoughts on their Iranian cultural context  -- Richard Kalmin; title: Allusions to Sasanian law in the Babylonian Talmud  -- Maria Macuch; title: The Iranian context of the Babylonian Talmud  -- Jason Sion Mokhtarian; title: The Sasanian stam : orality and the composition of Babylonian rabbinic and Zoroastrian legal literature  -- Shai Secunda; title: No talking during a meal : Zoroastrian themes in the Babylonian Talmud  -- Shaul Shaked; title: On the terminology and style of the Pahlavi schoclastic literature  -- Prods Oktor Skærvø; title: Relentless allusion : intertextuality and the reading of Zoroastrian interpretive literature -- Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina.