The Culture Of The Babylonian Talmud by Richard L. Rubenstein
A focused study that situates the Babylonian Talmud within the social and institutional world that produced it, analyzing how rabbinic legal discourse, dialectical method, and literary forms reflect the economic, political, and religious life of Babylonian Jewry. It examines yeshivot and rabbinic leadership, daily practices and communal norms, interactions with the surrounding Persian/Sasanian environment, and the processes of oral transmission and redaction that shaped the Talmud’s composite voice. Combining historical, sociological, and textual analysis, the work argues that the Talmud embodies a distinct communal culture formed by local circumstances as much as by abstract legal and theological concerns.
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