Kalmin, Richard Lee.

Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine [electronic resource] / Richard Kalmin. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 285 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and indexes.

Roman persecutions of Jews -- Kings, priests, and sages -- Jewish sources of the Second Temple Period in rabbinic compilations of late antiquity -- Anxious rabbis and mocking non-rabbis -- Idolatry in late antique Babylonia -- Persian persecutions of the Jews -- Josephus in Sasanian Babylonia.


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Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.
Jews--Intellectual life.--Iraq--Babylonia
Jews--Social conditions.--Iraq--Babylonia
Rabbis--Office--Iraq--Babylonia.
Tannaim.
Amoraim.
Jews--Persecutions.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.


Babylonia--History.


Electronic books.

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