16 septembre 2021
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Geoffrey Herman, « 4. In Search of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.uxqajk
It is not for lack of desire that efforts to ‘de-rabbinize’ Babylonian Jewry in the Talmudic period have been so hesitant and so abysmally unfruitful, as comparison with the scholarship on the Jews in the Roman Empire in recent decades can show. However, when almost all you have is the Babylonian Talmud, it is hard to argue with conviction that Babylonia might somehow not have been all that ‘Talmudic’. Even Jacob Neusner—among the foremost scholars to highlight the sharp distinction between P...