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Ausgabe:

April/2024

Spalte:

285-287

Kategorie:

Judaistik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Amsler, Monika

Titel/Untertitel:

The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture.

Verlag:

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023. 243 S. Geb. US$ 110,00. ISBN 9781009297332.

Rezensent:

Catherine Hezser

This book by Monika Amsler, which is based on her doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Zurich in 2018, attempts to reconstruct the literary processes that led to the compilation of the Babylonian Talmud. Since the Talmud does not provide any explicit evidence about its creation, a variety of theories have been offered by other scholars in the past that are usually based on internal literary and structural features of the text. Important aspects of these theories are the distinction between amoraic and stammaitic (anonymous editorial) layers and the dating of the latter to the late fifth to eighth centuries C. E., that is, significantly later than the Palestinian Talmud.

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