Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations Between Jews, Iranians and Babylonians in Antiquity
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda: Introduction -- Yaakov Elman: Contrasting Intellectual Trajectories: Iran and Israel in Mesopotamia -- I. Introduction -- Mesopotamia in Ancient Iranian and Jewish Cultures -- II. Listenwissenschaft and Its Lessons -- III. Analogy as a Legal...
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon. Scholarly Conversations Between Jews, Iranians and Babylonians in Antiquity (2016) (Hezser, Catherine, 1960 -)
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism
v.160 |
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Babylonia -- Antiquities -- History -- Congresses
B Iranians -- Antiquities -- Congresses B Jews -- Antiquities -- Congresses |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Gabbay, Uri: Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon : Scholarly Conversations Between Jews, Iranians and Babylonians in Antiquity. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,c2015. - 9783161528330 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Table of Contents -- Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda: Introduction -- Yaakov Elman: Contrasting Intellectual Trajectories: Iran and Israel in Mesopotamia -- I. Introduction -- Mesopotamia in Ancient Iranian and Jewish Cultures -- II. Listenwissenschaft and Its Lessons -- III. Analogy as a Legal Trope -- IV. Self-Referentiality in Avesta and Pentateuch -- V. Cosmopolitanism, Writing, and Listenwissenschaft -- VI. Sasanian Casuistics: Rabbis and Dastwars -- VII. The Turn to Conceptualism -- VIII. Zoroastrian Legal Midrash -- IX. The Problem of Indeterminacy -- X. Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Listenwissenschaft -- XI. The End of Late Antiquity -- Bibliography -- Society and Its Institutions -- Ran Zadok: Judeans in Babylonia - Updating the Dossier -- Appendix: Sample list of people with šarru-names belonging to the palatial sector -- Bibliography -- Caroline Waerzeggers: Locating Contact in the Babylonian Exile: Some Reflections on Tracing Judean-Babylonian Encounters in Cuneiform Texts -- Introduction: The Social Location of Exiled Peoples in Tanzania and Babylonia -- From Person to Text and Archive -- Pathways in Texts and Society -- The Case of the Chronicles -- Incidental or Structural? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Maria Macuch: Jewish Jurisdiction within the Framework of the Sasanian Legal System -- Bibliography -- The Transmission of Knowledge -- Abraham Winitzer: Assyriology and Jewish Studies in Tel Aviv: Ezekiel among the Babylonian literati -- I. Introduction -- II. Babylon in Ezekiel: Introductory Matters -- III. Babylon in Ezekiel: An Echo of Babylonian Scholastics -- IV. Ancient Encounters with the Epic of Gilgamesh (EG) -- V. Babylon in Ezekiel: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- VI. The Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel: Contextual Considerations (I) -- VII. The Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel: Contextual Considerations (II). Introduction -- Bearing and Moving Impurity in Pahlavi Literature -- Indirect Movement of Impurity in Pahlavi Literature -- Bearing Impurity in Rabbinic Literature -- Indirect Movement of Impurity in the Babylonian Talmud -- Bibliography -- Source Index -- Cuneiform Sources (Tablets and Compositions) -- Aramaic Sources (Magic Bowls) -- Old Testament -- Qumran -- Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha -- New Testament -- Mishnah -- Tosefta -- Midrash -- Palestinian Talmud -- Babylonian Talmud -- Persian Literature -- Sanskrit Literature -- Medieval Jewish Literature -- Greek Sources -- Quran -- Index Nominorum -- General Index. The Main Centers of Babylonian Exegetical Activity during the Achaemenid Period -- Characteristic Features of Babylonian Hermeneutics in the Achaemenid Period -- A Babylonian Background of Rabbinic Hermeneutics? -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Uri Gabbay: Actual Sense and Scriptural Intention: Literal Meaning and Its Terminology in Akkadian and Hebrew Commentaries -- I. Introduction -- II. Akkadian and Hebrew Terminology for Literal Meaning -- II.1. Akkadian literal interpretations: kayyān(u) -- II.2. Rabbinic literal interpretation: mamash and waddai -- II.3. Discussion: parallels and differences between kayyān(u) and mamash/waddai -- III. Akkadian and Hebrew Terminology Relating to Textual Wording and Intention -- III.1. The Akkadian verb qabû, "to say," as an exegetical term -- II.2. The Hebrew verb amar as an exegetical term (especially in the Dead Sea Scrolls) -- III.3. Discussion: Parallels and differences between the Akkadian and Hebrew phrases referring to textual wording or intention -- IV. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Prods Oktor Skjærvø: Abar Rōdestān ī Babēl: The Zoroastrian Tradition - the dēn - in Sasanian and Early Islamic Times -- Iranians and Jews in Xinjiang (Chinese Turkestan) -- The Old Iranian Literature -- The Avesta -- The Achaemenids -- The Sasanians -- The Written Avesta -- The Videvdad -- Terminology -- Examples of Scholarly Discussions about Pollution from the Pahlavi Literature -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Shai Secunda: Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Hermeneutics: Background and Prospects -- Avestan Transmission and Interpretation -- The Context and Contours of Avestan Study -- Scriptural Reinterpretation and Religious Conflict -- Between Plain Sense and Omnisignificance -- Bibliography -- Yishai Kiel: Shaking Impurity: Scriptural Exegesis and Legal Innovation in the Babylonian Talmud and Pahlavi Literature. VIII. More on the Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel - and Elsewhere -- IX. Tuppêkā ûněqābêka: The Epic of Gilgamesh Cited in Ezekiel? -- X. Text Citations and Tablet Boxes -- XI. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Bibliographical Postscript -- Jonathan Ben-Dov: Time and Culture: Mesopotamian Calendars in Jewish Sources from the Bible to the Mishnah -- 1. Local Calendars in an Imperial Context -- Excursus: Intercalation and Royal Power -- 2. The Week, the Pentecontad, and Their Trajectories -- 3. The 364-day Calendar Tradition and Its Mesopotamian Antecedents -- 4. The Mesopotamian Lunar Calendar and the Rabbinic New Moon Procedure -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Nathan Wasserman: Old-Babylonian, Middle-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Jewish-Babylonian? -- Thoughts about Transmission Modes of Mesopotamian Magic through the Ages -- Bibliography -- James Nathan Ford: The Ancient Mesopotamian Motif of kidinnu, "divine protection (of temple cities and their citizens)," in Akkadian and Aramaic Magic -- Bibliography -- Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D. Y. Shapira: Encounters between Iranian Myth and Rabbinic Mythmakers in the Babylonian Talmud -- I. The Story of the Ridyā -- II. Stories of RBBH's Voyages -- III. The Story of the Lion -- Appendix: Hwrmyz versus Hwrmyn -- Bibliography -- Scholasticism and Exegesis -- Irving L. Finkel: Remarks on Cuneiform Scholarship and the Babylonian Talmud -- 1. Commentary entry on ŠU.GIDIM.MA, qāt eṭemmi, "Hand-of-a-Ghost." -- 2. Commentary on a medical omen -- Bibliography -- Eckart Frahm: Traditionalism and Intellectual Innovation in a Cosmopolitan World: Reflections on Babylonian Text Commentaries from the Achaemenid Period -- Introductory Remarks -- The Mesopotamian Commentary Tradition -- Commentaries from Seventh-century Assyria -- Babylonian Commentaries. This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various Mesopotamian connections, often neglected in the study of ancient Judaism, are the focus of this truly interdisciplinary collection. Reihe Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism - Band 160 |
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| ISBN: | 3161530373 |