For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod

The Quest for Babylonian Tannaitic Traditions
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34701-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

In For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod, Barak S. Cohen reevaluates the evidence in Tannaitic and Amoraic literature of an independent “Babylonian Mishnah” which originated in the proto-talmudic period. The book focuses on an analysis of the most notable halakhic corpora that have been identified by scholars as originating in the Tannaitic period or at the outset of the amoraic. If indeed such an early corpus did exist, what are its characteristics and what, if any, connection does it have with the parallel Palestinian collections? Was this Babylonian Mishnah created in order to harmonize the Palestinian Mishnah with a corpus of rabbinic teachings already existent in Babylonia?
Was this corpus one of the main contributors to the forced interpretations and resolutions found so frequently in the Bavli?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Barak S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: A Reassesment of the Existence of Babylonian Tannaitic Traditions
“Babylonian Mishnah,” “Babylonian Baraitot,” and “Amoraic Baraitot”
The Significance of the Study of Early Babylonian Traditions
The Halakhic Corpora Discussed in This Study
History of Scholarship
Introductory Terms
Baraitot Which Interpret, Expand, or Add to the Mishnah
A Brief and Anonymous Formulation, without Attribution to Tannaim
The Absence of a Parallel in Palestinian Tannaitic Literature
The Relationship between Baraitot and Amoraic Memrot
Late Insertions of Halakhot and Interpretations into Earlier Baraitot
The Names of Sages and Their Geographical Location
Findings and Conclusions
The Origin and Nature of Halakha in Babylonia during the Second-Third Centuries
The Historical Reliability of Attributions
The Literary Contribution of Babylonian Sages from the Pre-talmudic Period

2 In Quest of Babylonian Halakha in Tannaitic Compositions
Babylonian Rabbinic Traditions in the Proto-talmudic Era: A History of Scholarship
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix: A Survey of the Main Evidence Presented by Scholars as Proof for the Existence of “Babylonian Halakhot” from the Mishnaic Period
Circumstancial Evidence
Sources in the Babylonian Talmud
b. Sukkah 20a
b. Pesah. 109a
b. Git. 14b = b. Ketub. 94b
b. B. Bat. 7b
b. Besah 34b
b. Šabb. 6b = Šabb. 96b
b. Hul. 63b
b. Besah 6a
b. Nid. 14a
b. Šabb. 35b
b. Git. 65b
Sources in the Palestinian Talmud
y. Hal. 4:4 (60a)
y. Ta’an. 1:1 (63d) = b. Ta’an. 10a
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Über Autor(innen)

Barak S. Cohen, Ph.D. (2004) in Talmud and Rabbinics, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Talmud, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University. He has published extensively on the intellectual history, chronology and historiography of the Babylonian Amoraim. His previous book, The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia, was published in 2011.