Overview

This volume explores the social position of rabbis in Palestinian (Roman) and Babylonian (Persian) society from the period of the fall of the Temple to late antiquity. The author argues that ancient rabbinic sources depict comparable differences between Palestinian and Babylonian rabbinic relationships with non-Rabbis. The text provides an analysis of the role of the sage on late antiquity and sheds light on rabbinic comments on such diverse topics as biblical heroes and genealogy and lineage.

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Kalmin's approach is salutary. He presents this material in a clearly written and generally well organized format... completely accessible to non-specialists... Specialists... will benefit greatly at a different level. Both groups of readers owe Kalmin a debt of gratitude. -David Goodblatt, The Jewish Quarterly Review ... Professor Kalmin has given his readers the best they could hope for. We his readers are in his debt. -Robert Goldenberg, Hebrew Studies, 2000 By paying close attention to the chronological and geographical provenance of rabbinic traditions, Kalmin provides us with a more variegated and complex portrait of rabbinic culture than is found in historical studies.... -Christine Hayes, Yale University Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001 Kalmin's generous footnotes document his evidence meticulously, and he offers a fine bibliography and careful indexing. This is a technical work of interest.... - Religous Studies Review This engaging book presents an important thesis and argues it clearly and convincingly. -Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001

Kalmin's approach is salutary. He presents this material in a clearly written and generally well organized format... completely accessible to non-specialists... Specialists... will benefit greatly at a different level. Both groups of readers owe Kalmin a debt of gratitude. <br>-David Goodblatt, The Jewish Quarterly Review <br>... Professor Kalmin has given his readers the best they could hope for. We his readers are in his debt. <br>-Robert Goldenberg, Hebrew Studies, 2000 <br> By paying close attention to the chronological and geographical provenance of rabbinic traditions, Kalmin provides us with a more variegated and complex portrait of rabbinic culture than is found in historical studies.... <br>-Christine Hayes, Yale University Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001 <br> Kalmin's generous footnotes document his evidence meticulously, and he offers a fine bibliography and careful indexing. This is a technical work of interest.... <br>- Religous Studies Review <br> This engaging book presents an important thesis and argues it clearly and convincingly. <br>-Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001 <br>

'Kalmin has clearly broken new ground with these studies ... To focus on the similarities and differences between these two centres with regard to a single issue ie. the relationship to the non-rabbinic world, is an important exercise...' - Journal of Semitic Studies

Kalmin's approach is salutary. He presents this material in a clearly written and generally well organized format... completely accessible to non-specialists... Specialists... will benefit greatly at a different level. Both groups of readers owe Kalmin a debt of gratitude. -David Goodblatt, The Jewish Quarterly Review ... Professor Kalmin has given his readers the best they could hope for. We his readers are in his debt. -Robert Goldenberg, Hebrew Studies, 2000 By paying close attention to the chronological and geographical provenance of rabbinic traditions, Kalmin provides us with a more variegated and complex portrait of rabbinic culture than is found in historical studies.... -Christine Hayes, Yale University Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001 Kalmin's generous footnotes document his evidence meticulously, and he offers a fine bibliography and careful indexing. This is a technical work of interest.... - Religous Studies Review This engaging book presents an important thesis and argues it clearly and convincingly. -Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001

Author Information

Richard Kalman is the Theodore R Racoosin Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Sages, Stories, Authors and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia

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