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List Books » Judaism and Zoroastrianism at the Dusk of Late Antiquity: How Two Ancient Faiths Wrote Down Their Great Traditions
Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9781555408893, ISBN-10: 1555408893
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of South Florida
Date Published: September 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Preface | ||
1 | Judaism and Zoroastrianism at the Dusk of Late Antiquity | 1 |
2 | Writing Down the Great Tradition | 17 |
3 | The Bavli: Form and Program. A Sample | 33 |
Pt. 1 | The Pahlavi Rivayat of Aturfarnbag and the Talmud | |
4 | The Pahlavi Rivayat of Aturfarnbag and the Bavli: Description and Comparison | 53 |
5 | Episodic Comparisons: The Family | 87 |
I | Exercising the Right of Refusal | 89 |
II | When Equal Shares in an Inheritance Have Been Guaranteed | 94 |
III | Disposing of an Inheritance of Thievery | 98 |
6 | Episodic Comparisons: The Social Order | 105 |
I | Relations to the Outside World | 106 |
II | Oaths Imposed on Children in Connection with the Father's Estate's Debts | 113 |
III | Can One Transfer Ownership of What Has Not Yet Come into Existence? | 116 |
IV | Some Preliminary Generalizations | 122 |
Pt. 2 | The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan I Denig and the Talmud | |
7 | The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan i Denig: Form and Program Compared to the Bavli | 127 |
8 | Episodic Comparisons | 143 |
I | The Transmission of Uncleanness | 143 |
II | Master-Disciple Relationships | 145 |
III | Father-Son or Master-Disciple Relationships | 149 |
IV | Husband-Wife Relationships: The Wife's Perfect Obedience | 152 |
V | Commercial Relationships: True Value | 156 |
VI | The Relationship between Zoroaster and God, and between Our Sages of Blessed Memory and God | 159 |
Pt. 3 | Perspective on the Great Traditions | |
9 | Ways of Writing Down Great Traditions in Israel and Iran | 165 |
I | [1] The Rule Unadorned, [2] the Rule Attached to a Myth, and [3] the Rule Joined to Its Reason: The Three Types of Re-Presenting Great Tradition in Late Antique Iran and Israel | 165 |
II | Myth and Rule in the Rivayats and in the Torah (Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy). The Mishnah | 168 |
III | The Rule and Its Amplification in the Yerushalmi | 170 |
IV | The Rule and Its Reason in the Bavli | 177 |
V | The Bavli's Definition of Tradition | 191 |
Index | 193 |