“Those Who Descend upon the Sea Told Me . . .”: Myth and Tall Tale in Baba Batra 73a–74b
This article examines bBaba Batra 73a–74b, a collection of first-person narratives describing rabbis’ fantastical journeys at sea and in the desert. The author adduces parallels between three of the sea stories in the sugya and maritime tall tales preserved in other Near Eastern texts. He argues tha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2017
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2017, Volume: 107, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-37 |
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Myth
B 001 Nights B “trigger words B Travel Literature B Haggadah B Eschatology B Sea B Baba Batra 73a–74b B Babylonian Talmud B Buzurg ibn Shahriyar B Lucian B Tales of 1 B “simultexts B Intertextuality B Allusion B Leviathan B Cosmology B Folklore B tall tales B Rabbah bar bar @Ḥanah |
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