A Talmud in Exile : The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli / / Alyssa M. Gray.

• Author: Brown University.
• VerfasserIn: Gray, Alyssa M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown University.
• Place / Publishing House: Providence : : Brown Judaic Studies,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English; Hebrew; Aramaic
• Series: Brown Judaic studies; 342
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 275 p. ); Grayscale Illustration
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

This book is a targetted study engaging the widely known phenomenon that many tractates in the Babylonian Talmud exhibit broad similarities to their counterparts in the Palestinian Talmud. Gray argues that this is the result of the production of an "early Talmud" in Palestine that made its way to Babylonia, where it formed later Babylonian editors used it in building the Babylonian Talmud.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- B. Avodah Zarah Drew Sequences of Sugyot and Topics from Y. Avodah Zarah (Macro Analysis) -- B. Avodah Zarah Sugyot as Secondary Reworkings of Y. Avodah Zarah Sugyot (Micro Analysis I) -- B. Avodah Zarah's Awareness of Y. Avodah Zarah's Editing (Micro Analysis II)-- The Provenance of Anonymous Material in the Bavli and the Role of Anonymous Material in B. Avodah Zarah's Appropriation of Y. Avodah Zarah (Micro Analysis III) -- The Historical Context of B. Avodah Zarah's Appropriation of Y. Avodah Zarah -- Conclusion: Y. Avodah Zarah Influenced the Formation of B. Avodah Zarah.