The archaeology and material culture of the Babylonian Talmud / / edited by Markham J. Geller.

• Superior document: IJS studies in Judaica, volume 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Geller, Markham J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: IJS studies in Judaica ; volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (415 p.)
• Notes: Conference proceedings of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction: The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud /; 1 The Land behind Ctesiphon: The Archaeology of Babylonia during the Period of the Babylonian Talmud /; 2 “Recycling Economies, When Efficient, are by Their Nature Invisible.” A First Century Jewish Recycling Economy /; 3 The Cedar in Jewish Antiquity /; 4 Since When Do Women Go to Miqveh? Archaeological and Rabbinic Evidence /; 5 Rabbis in Incantation Bowls /; 6 Divorcing a Demon: Incantation Bowls and bt Giṭṭin 85b /; 7 Lilith’s Hair and Ashmedai’s Horns: Incantation Bowl Imagery in the Light of Talmudic Descriptions /; 8 The Material World of Babylonia as Seen from Roman Palestine: Some Preliminary Observations /; 9 Travel between Palestine and Mesopotamia during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A Preliminary Study /; 10 Shopping in Ctesiphon: A Lesson in Sasanian Commercial Practice /; 11 Substance and Fruit in the Sasanian Law of Property and the Babylonian Talmud /; 12 Rabbinic, Christian, and Local Calendars in Late Antique Babylonia: Influence and Shared Culture /; 13 ‘Manasseh Sawed Isaiah with a Saw of Wood:’ An Ancient Legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Persian Sources /; 14 Biblical ‘Archaeology’ and Babylonian Rabbis: On the Self-Image of Jews in Sasanian Babylonia /; 15 Loanwords in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: Some Preliminary Observations /; 16 The Gymnasium at Babylon and Jerusalem /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004304894
• ISSN: 1570-1581
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Markham J. Geller.

"The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved"--