Past Continuous: The Yerushalmi’s Account of Honi’s Long Sleep and Its Roots in Second Temple Era Literature

The Palestinian version of the seventy-year sleep of Honi Hamʿagel in y. Taʿanit 3:9 (66d), is an example of a rabbinic narrative deeply rooted in the culture of pre-rabbinic Judaism. Its authors were familiar with three distinct literary-historical traditions found in earlier texts: the depiction o...

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Main Author: Simon-Shoshan, Moshe 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 398-431
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Talmûd bavlî / Megillat Taʿanit / Old Testament / Bible. Jesus Sirach 50,1-21 / Bible. Makkabäer 2. / Nehemiah Biblical character / Abimelech, Sichem, König / Babylonian Captivity / Sleep (Motif)
RelBib Classification:HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B 4 Baruch
B Talmud Yerushalmi
B Rabbinic Narrative
B Ben Sira
B Honi the Circle-Drawer
B Second Temple Literature
B 2 Maccabees
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