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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-28 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he fi
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Jenny R. Labendz shows that despite the highly internal and self-referential nature of rabbinic Torah study, some ancient rabbis believed that the involvement o
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-23 - Publisher: SPCK
Margaret Barker believes that Christianity developed so quickly because it was a return to far older faith—far older than the Greek culture that is long-held
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Pages: 644
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An anthology of excerpts from ancient works on Jews and Judaism, in Greek and Latin, with a Russian translation, accompanied by comments by Stern. Inter alia, c