Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine. By Richard Kalmin
It is notoriously difficult to establish the history of a community when the surviving evidence is purely textual, and perhaps especially so when the texts are religious. An example of such a difficulty is to be found in the history and structure of the Jewish community in Mesopotamia under Persian...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 238-240 |
| Review of: | Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine (Ocford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006) (Coggins, Richard)
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| Summary: | It is notoriously difficult to establish the history of a community when the surviving evidence is purely textual, and perhaps especially so when the texts are religious. An example of such a difficulty is to be found in the history and structure of the Jewish community in Mesopotamia under Persian rule during the first few centuries of the Common Era. In quantity the evidence provided by the Babylonian Talmud is impressive enough, but the ways in which it may legitimately be used in the reconstruction of the life of the community that produced it are much more problematic. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm173 |