You can’t go home again: the Bavli’s story of Honi’s big sleep as inversion of the Yerushalmi’s account

This article presents an original reading of the Bavli account of Honi’s 70-year sleep. It argues that printed editions present a corrupt reading of Honi’s initial statement, which originally read ‘Seventy years like a dream!’, expressing Honi’s existential dread of his own mortality. The story must...

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Main Author: Simon-Shoshan, Moshe 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2021
In: Journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 257-282
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