The People, Not the Peoples: The Talmud Bavli’s “Charitable” Contribution to the Jewish-Christian Conversation in Mesopotamia
Bavli Baba Batra 10b–11a substantiates the existence of a “Jewish-Christian conversation” that took place in fourth-century Mesopotamia. This essay demonstrates that this sugya presents rabbinic responses to several Christian claims: (1) contra Aphrahat, God and Israel have a continuing and uniquely...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-167 |
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Aphrahat
Shapur
Early Iranian Christianity
Talmudic polemics
charity
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