A Traveling Homeland : : The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora / / Daniel Boyarin.
A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning for an ancestral home. But as Danie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prelude. A Different Diaspora
- Chapter 1. Diaspora and the Jewish Diasporas
- Chapter 2. At Home in Babylonia: The Talmud as Diasporist Manifesto
- Chapter 3. In the Land of Talmud: The Textual Making of a Diasporic Folk
- Chapter 4. Looking for Our Routes; or, the Talmud and the Making of Diasporas: Sefarad and Ashkenaz
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Index of Ancient Texts
- Acknowledgments