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A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli

Alyssa M. Gray

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Contents

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Publishers’ Preface
Preface to the Digital Edition
Acknowledgments
Conventions and Abbreviations
Chapter 1 • Introduction
- I. The Question
- II. Factors Complicating Resolution of the Question
- III. Prior Research on the Relationship between the Talmuds
- IV. The Method of This Book
Chapter 2 • B. Avodah Zarah Drew Sequences of Sugyot and Topics from Y. Avodah Zarah (Macro Analysis)
- I. B. Avodah Zarah Tends to Appropriate Y. Avodah Zarah Sugyot (or Sequences of Two or More Y. Avodah Zarah Sugyot in the Same Order as Y. Avodah Zarah) Attached to the Same Mishnah
- II. B. Avodah Zarah Builds a Complex Sugya Using Some Materials Marked as Relevant by the Y. Avodah Zarah Redactors
- III. When Material in B. Avodah Zarah Has a Parallel in Y. Avodah Zarah and in Some Other Rabbinic Compilation, B. Avodah Zarah Tends to More Closely Resemble Y. Avodah Zarah
- IV. Y. Avodah Zarah And B. Avodah Zarah Place Similar Material at a Similar Point in the Tractate, Although Not Attached to the Same Mishnaic Passage
- V. Y. Avodah Zarah and B. Avodah Zarah Use the Same Mishnah as the Occasion to Explore the Same Legal Issue (Or Present Similar Genres of Materials)
- VI. Did Y. Avodah Zarah Rely on Babylonian Sugyot in B. Avodah Zarah?
- VII. Conclusion
Chapter 3 • B. Avodah Zarah Sugyot as Secondary Reworkings of Y. Avodah Zarah Sugyot (Micro Analysis I)
- I. B. Avodah Zarah Reworks Y. Avodah Zarah to Introduce a Babylonian Cultural or Halakhic Perspective or Linguistic Feature
- II. B. Avodah Zarah Tends to Eliminate Materials of Particular Relevance to the Land of Israel or Its Roman Cultural Context
- III. At Times B. Avodah Zarah Organizes Materials in a More Sensible Order Than Y. Avodah Zarah
- IV. B. Avodah Zarah Views a Source in Connection with an Amoraic Concern That Y. Avodah Zarah Had Viewed in Connection with the Mishnah
- V. B. Avodah Zarah Reworks Y. Avodah Zarah Sugyot in Order to Raise Legal Issues to a Higher Level of Abstraction
- VI. Conclusion
Chapter 4 • B. Avodah Zarah’s Awareness of Y. Avodah Zarah’s Editing (Micro Analysis II)
- I. B. Avodah Zarah Begins at the Point at Which Y. Avodah Zarah Leaves Off
- II. B. Avodah Zarah Answers a Question Left Virtually Unanswered in Y. Avodah Zarah
- III. B. Avodah Zarah Moves in the Same Direction as Y. Avodah Zarah, But Uses Different Sources
- IV. Conclusion
Chapter 5 • The Provenance of Anonymous Material in the Bavli and the Role of Anonymous Material in B. Avodah Zarah’s Appropriation of Y. Avodah Zarah (Micro Analysis III)
- I. Precursors in the Study of the Anonymous Bavli in Relation to Palestinian Learning: Isaac Halevy and Zwi Moshe Dor
- II. David Halivni’s Contribution to the Study of the Anonymous Bavli
- III. Anonymous Statements in the Bavli Can Be Attributed to Palestinian Amoraim
- IV. Anonymous Material in B. Avodah Zarah That Is Also Anonymous in Y. Avodah Zarah
- V. Anonymous Material in the Bavli That Cannot Be Shown to Be Palestinian
- VI. Conclusion
- Appendix: The Babylonian Anonymous Bavli Shows the Influence of a Babylonian Halakhic Agenda
Chapter 6 • The Historical Context of B. Avodah Zarah’s Appropriation of Y. Avodah Zarah
- I. Palestine in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
- II. What Babylonian Generation Is Aware of Y. Avodah Zarah?
- III. In What Form(s) Did the Redacted Yerushalmi Exist?
- IV. Conclusion
- Appendix: The Alleged Geonic Teshuvah in the Sefer ha-Eshkol
Chapter 7 • Conclusion: Y. Avodah Zarah Influenced the Formation of B. Avodah Zarah
Appendix: Complete List of Sugyot Drawn from Y. Avodah Zarah by B. Avodah Zarah
Selected Bibliography
General Index

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Published: 2005

Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

ISBN(s)

978-1-951498-23-8 (ebook)
978-1-951498-24-5 (PDF)

Subject

Religion

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