RT Article
T1 Reading the Bavli in Iran
JF The Jewish quarterly review
VO 100
IS 2
SP 310
OP 342
A1 Secunda, Shai
LA English
PB Penn Press
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1802096140
AB Recently, scholars have begun to reexamine the Babylonian Talmud in light of its Sasanian Iranian context A fair number of parallels have thus far been adduced and analyzed. However, there has been relatively little theoretical discussion regarding the implications of contextualizing the Bavli. This article articulates one methodological problem by, on the one hand emphasizing both the Bavli's apparent insularity from non-Jewish Sasanian literature and its indeptedness to Palestinian rabbinic Judaism, and on the other hand, by describing the dynamanism of Sasanian cultures of religious learning which flourished within roughly the same time and space. By analyzing the Bavli's discussions of "anatomical dualism" at Sanhedrin 38b-39a, this paper advances a method of interpretation which highlights the Bavli's own processes of reading Roman Palestinian rabbinic texts in a Sasanian Babylonian context.
K1 Disputations
K1 Sasanian Iran
K1 Dualism
K1 Zoroastrianism
K1 Middle Persian
K1 Babylonian Talmud
DO 10.1353/jqr.0.0081