Between Rome and Babylon
Studies in Jewish Leadership and Society
Edited by Nili Oppenheimer By (author) Aharon Oppenheimer
Hardback (Published)
(July 2005)
ISBN: 9783161485145
6.46 x 9.29 inches
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This collection of papers by Aharon Oppenheimer contributes to the ongoing discussion of the history of the Jews in Palestine and Babylonia in the period of the Mishnah and the Talmud. Most of the papers appear now for the first time in translation from Hebrew. All of them have been selected and edited to suit this collection, and cross-references as well as indices have been added.
Between Rome and Babylon includes over thirty papers by Aharon Oppenheimer about Jewish life in Palestine and Babylonia in the period of the Mishnah and the Talmud (1st-4th centuries), dealing with leadership and society, political and military activity, relations with the authorities and historical geography. The collection is organized around three inter-connected themes: 1 Roman Palestine and its Environs; 2 The Bar Kokhba Revolt; 3 Babylonia Judaica. About two-thirds of the papers were originally published in Hebrew. They have been selected and edited for this collection, and translated for the first time into English or German. The rest of the papers originally appeared in various different languages and contexts, and they too have been selected and edited to fit the three themes. Cross-references have been added, as well as detailed indices.The aim of the papers is to cast light on Jewish history by extracting methodically historical meaning from Talmudic sources, taking into account when they were written, where they were edited, and how far they can be presumed authentic; and by looking at them in combination with Greek, Roman, Persian and Arabic written sources as well as relevant archaeological finds.
- Edited by Nili Oppenheimer
- By (author) Aharon Oppenheimer
Other Titles in this Series
Between Temple and Torah
Essays on Priests, Scribes, and Visionaries in the Second Temple Period and Beyond
Jews and Hellenistic Cities in Eretz-Israel
Relations of the Jews in Eretz-Israel with the Hellenistic Cities during the Second Temple Period (332 BCE-70 CE)
Abduktives Denken und talmudische Argumentation
Eine rechtstheoretische Annäherung an eine zentrale Interpretationsfigur im babylonischen Talmud
Above, Below, Before, and After
Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Conversation with Martha Himmelfarb
Building on the Ruins of the Temple
Apologetics and Polemics in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
Die ptolemäische Organisationsform politeuma
Ein Herrschaftsinstrument zugunsten jüdischer und anderer hellenischer Gemeinschaften
Tod und Sterben im Krieg bei Josephus
Die Intentionen von Bellum und Antiquitates im Kontext griechisch-römischer Historiographie
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