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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Main Author: Gray, Alyssa M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-167
Further subjects:B Aphrahat Shapur Early Iranian Christianity Talmudic polemics charity
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)