Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture

Informationen zum Autor Monika Amsler is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Bern. A historian of ancient religion, she is the editor of Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity, published in the Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume Series. Klappentext "Describes how we should imagine the intellectual and physical formation of the text in the 6th century CE. This is achieved by way of comparison with other more or less contemporary books, thereby describing the work as a product of its own time rather than as its authors aiming at what the Talmud ultimately became: the basis of orthodox Judaism"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Chapter One; 2. Chapter Two; 3. Chapter Three; 4. Chapter Four; 5. Chapter Five.

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• Authors: Monika Amsler, Monika (Universitat Bern Amsler
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009297332
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0929733-2
• No. of pages: 243
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Judaism / General, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Judaism, Sacred texts, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Babylonia, Orthodox Judaism, Rabbinic literature