2004
Volume 78, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 2542-6583
  • E-ISSN: 2590-3268

Abstract

Abstract

presents the major works of classical rabbinic Judaism as inter-related aggregates analyzed through three broad perspectives: intertextuality (the multi-directional relationships among and between rabbinic texts and non-rabbinic Jewish sources), east and west (the impact on rabbinic texts of the cultures of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian West and the Sasanian East), and halakhah and aggadah (the relationship of law and narrative in rabbinic sources). This article demonstrates the insights gained by mobilizing all three perspectives in the analysis of a single text—the story of R. Yehoshua ben Ḥanania in Bavli (further; b.) Bekhorot 8b–9a.

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