The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia
Biographical note
Barak S. Cohen, Ph.D. (2004) in Talmud and Rabbinics, is a lecturer at the Department of Talmud, faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University. He has published extensively on the intellectual history, chronology and historiography of the Babylonian Amoraim.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, the history of Late Antiquity, Jewish law, and East Syrian Scholasticism.
Table of contents
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Amemar
Chapter Three: "The Nehardeans Say"
Chapter Four: Rav Hama
Chapter Five: Rav Zebid of Nehardea
Chapter Six: Rav Dimi of Nehardea
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Amemar
Chapter Three: "The Nehardeans Say"
Chapter Four: Rav Hama
Chapter Five: Rav Zebid of Nehardea
Chapter Six: Rav Dimi of Nehardea
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