September 2018 – Excerpted

27 September 2018

Tagged archaeology, Babylonian Talmud, Sasanian Babylonia, Sasanian Persia, Scholarship

“…the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and…urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia is the Babylonian Talmud”

By far, the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and, in a sense, urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia […]

Archaeology / Rabbinic Literature / Scholarship

27 September 2018

Tagged Academia, Academic Talmud, archaeology, artifacts, Scholarship

“The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity”

The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the Greek and Roman world, with their so-called epigraphic […]