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...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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