A History of the Jews in Babylonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Jews in Babylonia write by Jacob Neusner. This book was released on 1966. A History of the Jews in Babylonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of the Talmud
A History of the Talmud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Talmud write by David C. Kraemer. This book was released on 2019-09-30. A History of the Talmud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the Talmud in Judaism and beyond. Yet its difficult language and its assumptions, so distant from modern sensibilities, render it inaccessible to most readers. In this volume, David C. Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise as a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism with the lessons of his experience as director of one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. Tracing the Talmud's origins and its often controversial status through history, he bases his work on the most recent historical and literary scholarship while making no assumptions concerning the reader's prior knowledge. Kraemer also examines the continuities and shifts of the Talmud over time and space. His work will provide scholars and students with an unprecedented understanding of one of the world's great classics and the spirit that animates it.
A History of the Jews in Babylonia: The early Sasanian period
A History of the Jews in Babylonia: The early Sasanian period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Jews in Babylonia: The early Sasanian period write by Jacob Neusner. This book was released on 1965. A History of the Jews in Babylonia: The early Sasanian period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
New Babylonians
New Babylonians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Babylonians write by Orit Bashkin. This book was released on 2012-09-12. New Babylonians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s. As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of misguided state policies during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, from a dominant mood of coexistence, friendship, and partnership, the impossibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence became the prevailing narrative in the region—and the dominant narrative we have come to know today.
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture write by Robert Brody. This book was released on 1998-01-01. The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named, were the heads of the ancient talmudic academies of Babylonia. They gained ascendancy over the older Palestinian center of Judaism and were recognized as the leading religious and spiritual authorities by most of the world's Jewish population. The Geonim and their circles enshrined the Babylonian Talmud as the central canonical work of rabbinic literature and the leading guide to religious practice, and it was a predominantly Babylonian version of Judaism that was transplanted to newer centers of Judaism in North Africa and Europe. Robert Brody's book -- the first survey in English of the Geonic period in almost a century -focuses on the cultural milieu of the Geonim and on their intellectual and literary creativity. Brody describes the cultural spheres in which the Geonim were active and the historical and cultural settings within which they functioned. He emphasizes the challenges presented by other Jewish institutions and individuals, ranging from those within the Babylonian Jewish setting -- specially the political leadership represented by the Exilarch -- to the competing Palestinian Jewish center and to sectarian movements and freethinkers who rejected rabbinic authority altogether. He also describes the variety of ways in which the development of Geonic tradition was affected by the surrounding non-Jewish cultures, both Muslim and Christian. "This book is a fresh and thorough examination of the period in question, a masterpiece of scholarship and erudition". -- Neil Danzig, Jewish Theological Seminary
