The Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world Herman, Geoffrey editor. Rubenstein, Jeffrey L. editor. text bibliography Electronic books. riu 2018 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Introduction / Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- A Demonic Servant in Rav Papa's Household: Demons as Subjects in the Mesopotamian Talmud / Sara Ronis -- Narrative Bricolage and Cultural Hybrids in Rabbinic Babylonia: On the Narratives of Seduction and the Topos of Light / Reuven Kiperwasser -- "Meishan Is Dead": On the Historical Contexts of the Bavli's Representations of the Jews in Southern Babylonia / Yakir Paz -- "In Honor of the House of Caesar": Attitudes to the Kingdom in the Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and Other Sasanian Sources / Geoffrey Herman -- Clusters of Iranian Loanwords in Talmudic Folkore: The Chapter of the Pious (b. Taʻanit 18b-26a) in its Sasanian Context / Jason Mokhtarian -- Gaze and Counter-Gaze: Textuality and Contextuality in the Anecdote of Rav Assi and the Roman (b. Baba Metsiʻa 28b) / Shai Secunda -- Martyrdom in the Persian Martyr Acts and in the Babylonian Talmud / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- A Persian Anti-Martyr Act: The Death of Rabba bar Naḥmani in Light of the Syriac Persian Martyr Acts / Simcha Gross -- "Fool, Look to the End of the Verse": b. Ḥullin 87a and Its Christian Background / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal -- Dualistic Elements in Babylonian Aggada / Yaakov Elman -- First Man, First Bovine: Talmudic Mythology in Context / Yishai Kiel -- Mourner's Kaddish, The Prequel: The Sassanian Period Backstory That Gave Birth to the Medieval Prayer for the Dead / David Brodsky. edited by Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. a-iq--- a-ir--- Talmud Legends Aggada History and criticism Iraq Civilization To 634 Iran Civilization To 640 Judaism Relations Christianity Christianity and other religions Judaism Judaism Relations Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism Relations Judaism To 640 fast 296.1/27606 Brown Judaic Studies ; Number 362 Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world Providence, RI : Brown Judaic Studies, [2018] (DLC) 2018023868 9781946527103 1946527106 9781946527080 1946527092 9781946527097 1946527084 2018026222 22573/ctv452vr5 JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv43vr7b NhCcYBP 180530 20250331130605.3 in00005631257