Encounters by the rivers of Babylon

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This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various Mesopotamian connections, often neglected in the …

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Full title :Encounters by the rivers of Babylon / edited by Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda.

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Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mohr Siebeck
Place of Publication:Tübingen [Germany]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

Notes

"Originated in an international conference that took place in May 2011 at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Center for Humanities and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Includes indexes.

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Description:1 online resource (476 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783161530371, 3161530373
oclc:ocn905862698
LC Classification:DS69.5
Dewey Decimal:935

Cover; Table of Contents; Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda: Introduction; Yaakov Elman: Contrasting Intellectual Trajectories: Iran and Israel in Mesopotamia; I. Introduction; Mesopotamia in Ancient Iranian and Jewish Cultures; II. Listenwissenschaft and Its Lessons; III. Analogy as a Legal Trope; IV. Self-Referentiality in Avesta and Pentateuch; V. Cosmopolitanism, Writing, and Listenwissenschaft; VI. Sasanian Casuistics: Rabbis and Dastwars; VII. The Turn to Conceptualism; VIII. Zoroastrian Legal Midrash; IX. The Problem of Indeterminacy; X. Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Listenwissenschaft.

XI. The End of Late AntiquityBibliography; Society and Its Institutions ; Ran Zadok: Judeans in Babylonia -- Updating the Dossier; Appendix: Sample list of people with šarru-names belonging to the palatial sector; Bibliography; Caroline Waerzeggers: Locating Contact in the Babylonian Exile: Some Reflections on Tracing Judean-Babylonian Encounters in Cuneiform Texts; Introduction: The Social Location of Exiled Peoples in Tanzania and Babylonia; From Person to Text and Archive; Pathways in Texts and Society; The Case of the Chronicles; Incidental or Structural?; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Antiquities Babylonia -- Congresses. -- Antiquities Conference papers and proceedings Electronic books History Iranians -- Congresses. -- Antiquities Jews -- Antiquities Jews -- Congresses. -- Antiquities Juifs -- Congrès. -- Antiquités Middle East -- Babylonia