Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations Between Jews, Iranians, and Babylonians in Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9783161528330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 469 str.

Uri Gabbay; Shai Secunda

Opis

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 study of ancient Judaism, are the focus of this truly interdisciplinary collection.

O autorze

Born 1975; PhD in Assyriology at Hebrew University; Senior Lecturer in Hebrew University Jerusalem. Born 1979; PhD in Talmud from Yeshiva University; Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.