In the Margins of the Rabbinic Curriculum:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" In the Margins of the Rabbinic Curriculum: "
Yishai Kiel

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075321
Doc. No	:	LA118950
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340098‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Yishai Kiel
Title & Author	:	In the Margins of the Rabbinic Curriculum: [Article] : Mastering ʿUqṣin in the Light of Zoroastrian Intellectual Culture\ Yishai Kiel
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	46/2
Page No	:	251–281
Abstract	:	The study situates the Babylonian rabbinic discussion concerning the spread of ritual pollution in produce in a broader cultural and intellectual context, by synoptically examining the rabbinic discussion against the backdrop of contemporaneous Zoroastrian legal discourse. It is suggested that the intimate affinity exhibited between the Babylonian rabbinic and Pahlavi discussions of produce contamination supports a fresh examination of the cultural significance of tractate ʿUqtzin in the Babylonian Talmud and the implications of its mastery on the intellectual and cultural identity of the Babylonian rabbis. The study posits that the self-reflective Talmudic reference to the knowledge and interest later generations of Babylonian rabbis possessed in tractate ʿUqtzin and the spread of ritual pollution in produce reflects the relative significance of these topics in the broader intellectual agenda of the Sasanian period. The later Babylonian rabbis boasted about their knowledge of tractate ʿUqtzin, which extended far beyond the capacity of earlier generations, precisely because this topic best reflected the intellectual currents of their time. The study situates the Babylonian rabbinic discussion concerning the spread of ritual pollution in produce in a broader cultural and intellectual context, by synoptically examining the rabbinic discussion against the backdrop of contemporaneous Zoroastrian legal discourse. It is suggested that the intimate affinity exhibited between the Babylonian rabbinic and Pahlavi discussions of produce contamination supports a fresh examination of the cultural significance of tractate ʿUqtzin in the Babylonian Talmud and the implications of its mastery on the intellectual and cultural identity of the Babylonian rabbis. The study posits that the self-reflective Talmudic reference to the knowledge and interest later generations of Babylonian rabbis possessed in tractate ʿUqtzin and the spread of ritual pollution in produce reflects the relative significance of these topics in the broader intellectual agenda of the Sasanian period. The later Babylonian rabbis boasted about their knowledge of tractate ʿUqtzin, which extended far beyond the capacity of earlier generations, precisely because this topic best reflected the intellectual currents of their time.
Descriptor	:	Babylonian Talmud
Descriptor	:	middle Persian
Descriptor	:	Pahlavi
Descriptor	:	produce contamination
Descriptor	:	ritual purity
Descriptor	:	Teharot
Descriptor	:	ʿUqtzin
Descriptor	:	Zoroastrianism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340098‬