Friends and Colleagues, or Barely Acquainted?: Relations Between Fourth-Generation Masters in the Babylonian Talmud

This paper demonstrates that dialogues between Abaye and Rava, conventionally assumed to form the backbone of the Babylonian Talmud, are extremely rare. Nearly all of their apparent dialogues involve Abaye and his teacher, Rabbah, rather than Abaye and his contemporary, Rava. In general, face-to-fac...

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Main Author: Kalmin, Richard Lee 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: HUC 1991
In: Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 1990, Volume: 61, Pages: 125-158
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