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Pages: 349
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-19 - Publisher:
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Language: en
Pages: 247
Pages: 247
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-01 - Publisher: JHU Press
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which q
Language: en
Pages: 510
Pages: 510
Type: BOOK - Published: 1921 - Publisher: CUP Archive
Language: en
Pages: 420
Pages: 420
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named
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Pages: 273
Pages: 273
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Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has