Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Irano-Talmudica and Beyond: Next Steps in the Contextualization of the Babylonian Talmud

Irano-Talmudica and Beyond: Next Steps in the Contextualization of the Babylonian Talmud T HE J EWISH Q UA R T E R LY R EVIE W, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Spring 2016) 248–255 Irano-Talmudica and Beyond: Next Steps in the Contextualization of the Babylonian Talmud SIMCHA M. GROSS Yale University T R A DI T I ON A L S C HO L A RLY S T U DY of the Babylonian Talmud has largely ignored the work’s historical context. The underlying presump- tion of most scholarship was that the Bavli was the product of a reified rabbinic culture, with Palestinian rabbinic literature as its antecedent and geonic literature as its successor, and that the Babylonian rabbis were themselves an ideologically and culturally insular elite. In recent years, however, a school of scholarship, sometimes called ‘‘Irano-Talmudica,’’ sought to give historical context to the Bavli and its rabbis, challenging the presumed insularity of the Babylonian rabbis. This has proved to be a critical turn in the field. This drive to contextualize the Babylonian Talmud has begun to emerge from its infancy, raising a number of new questions: What are the most apt and fruitful sources and materials? Which methodology is most promising? What is the potential payoff for scholars investigating these sources? http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

Irano-Talmudica and Beyond: Next Steps in the Contextualization of the Babylonian Talmud

Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 106 (2) – Jun 22, 2016

Loading next page...
 
/lp/university-of-pennsylvania-press/irano-talmudica-and-beyond-next-steps-in-the-contextualization-of-the-KBfBjpUqcQ

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Copyright
Copyright © Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
ISSN
1553-0604

Abstract

T HE J EWISH Q UA R T E R LY R EVIE W, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Spring 2016) 248–255 Irano-Talmudica and Beyond: Next Steps in the Contextualization of the Babylonian Talmud SIMCHA M. GROSS Yale University T R A DI T I ON A L S C HO L A RLY S T U DY of the Babylonian Talmud has largely ignored the work’s historical context. The underlying presump- tion of most scholarship was that the Bavli was the product of a reified rabbinic culture, with Palestinian rabbinic literature as its antecedent and geonic literature as its successor, and that the Babylonian rabbis were themselves an ideologically and culturally insular elite. In recent years, however, a school of scholarship, sometimes called ‘‘Irano-Talmudica,’’ sought to give historical context to the Bavli and its rabbis, challenging the presumed insularity of the Babylonian rabbis. This has proved to be a critical turn in the field. This drive to contextualize the Babylonian Talmud has begun to emerge from its infancy, raising a number of new questions: What are the most apt and fruitful sources and materials? Which methodology is most promising? What is the potential payoff for scholars investigating these sources?

Journal

Jewish Quarterly ReviewUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

Published: Jun 22, 2016

There are no references for this article.