Crossing Enemy Lines:

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" Crossing Enemy Lines: "
Catherine Hezser

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075320
Doc. No	:	LA118949
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340420‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Catherine Hezser
Title & Author	:	Crossing Enemy Lines: [Article] : Network Connections Between Palestinian and Babylonian Sages in Late Antiquity\ Catherine Hezser
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	46/2
Page No	:	224–250
Abstract	:	The Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds transmit stories about sages who crossed the boundaries between the Roman and Persian empires in late antiquity to sojourn in the “enemy” territory for a certain amount of time. These sages, who were members of local rabbinic networks, established inter-regional network connections among Palestinian and Babylonian scholars which reached across political boundaries. This paper will investigate how these connections were established and maintained. What was the role of place and mobility in an intellectual network “without propinquity”? Which segments of the respective local rabbinic networks maintained inter-regional contacts? Or more specifically: which sages are presented as the main nodal points within these networks and what were their roles within Palestinian and Babylonian Jewish society? How did network centrality and power shift from Palestine to Babylonia between the fourth and sixth centuries c.e.? The Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds transmit stories about sages who crossed the boundaries between the Roman and Persian empires in late antiquity to sojourn in the “enemy” territory for a certain amount of time. These sages, who were members of local rabbinic networks, established inter-regional network connections among Palestinian and Babylonian scholars which reached across political boundaries. This paper will investigate how these connections were established and maintained. What was the role of place and mobility in an intellectual network “without propinquity”? Which segments of the respective local rabbinic networks maintained inter-regional contacts? Or more specifically: which sages are presented as the main nodal points within these networks and what were their roles within Palestinian and Babylonian Jewish society? How did network centrality and power shift from Palestine to Babylonia between the fourth and sixth centuries c.e.?
Descriptor	:	late antiquity
Descriptor	:	mobility
Descriptor	:	network
Descriptor	:	rabbis
Descriptor	:	Roman Palestine
Descriptor	:	Sasanian Babylonia
Descriptor	:	Talmud
Descriptor	:	travel
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340420‬