Publication

2015 - Brill, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

100,750 words, Guess

Page Count

403 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004304888
  • ISBN-139789004304895
  • ISBN-109004304886
  • ISBN-109004304894
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015030276
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC296.1/25009
  • LCCBM177 .A73 2015
  • LCCBM177.A73 2015

Description

"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"--

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