Encounters by the rivers of Babylon /edited by Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda.

"Originated in an international conference that took place in May 2011 at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Center for Humanities and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Table of Contents; Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda: Introduction; Yaakov Elman: Contrasting Intellectual Trajectories: Iran and Israel in Mesopotamia; I. Introduction; Mesopotamia in Ancient Iranian and Jewish Cultures; II. Listenwissenschaft and Its Lessons; III. Analogy as a Legal Trope; IV. Self-Referentiality in Avesta and Pentateuch; V. Cosmopolitanism, Writing, and Listenwissenschaft; VI. Sasanian Casuistics: Rabbis and Dastwars; VII. The Turn to Conceptualism; VIII. Zoroastrian Legal Midrash; IX. The Problem of Indeterminacy; X. Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Listenwissenschaft.

XI. The End of Late AntiquityBibliography; Society and Its Institutions ; Ran Zadok: Judeans in Babylonia -- Updating the Dossier; Appendix: Sample list of people with šarru-names belonging to the palatial sector; Bibliography; Caroline Waerzeggers: Locating Contact in the Babylonian Exile: Some Reflections on Tracing Judean-Babylonian Encounters in Cuneiform Texts; Introduction: The Social Location of Exiled Peoples in Tanzania and Babylonia; From Person to Text and Archive; Pathways in Texts and Society; The Case of the Chronicles; Incidental or Structural?; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Maria Macuch: Jewish Jurisdiction within the Framework of the Sasanian Legal SystemBibliography; The Transmission of Knowledge ; Abraham Winitzer: Assyriology and Jewish Studies in Tel Aviv: Ezekiel among the Babylonian literati; I. Introduction; II. Babylon in Ezekiel: Introductory Matters; III. Babylon in Ezekiel: An Echo of Babylonian Scholastics; IV. Ancient Encounters with the Epic of Gilgamesh (EG); V. Babylon in Ezekiel: The Epic of Gilgamesh; VI. The Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel: Contextual Considerations (I); VII. The Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel: Contextual Considerations (II).

VIII. More on the Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel -- and ElsewhereIX. Tuppêkā ûněqābêka: The Epic of Gilgamesh Cited in Ezekiel?; X. Text Citations and Tablet Boxes; XI. Conclusion; Bibliography; Bibliographical Postscript; Jonathan Ben-Dov: Time and Culture: Mesopotamian Calendars in Jewish Sources from the Bible to the Mishnah; 1. Local Calendars in an Imperial Context; Excursus: Intercalation and Royal Power; 2. The Week, the Pentecontad, and Their Trajectories; 3. The 364-day Calendar Tradition and Its Mesopotamian Antecedents.

4. The Mesopotamian Lunar Calendar and the Rabbinic New Moon Procedure5. Conclusion; Bibliography; Nathan Wasserman: Old-Babylonian, Middle-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Jewish-Babylonian? ; Thoughts about Transmission Modes of Mesopotamian Magic through the Ages ; Bibliography; James Nathan Ford: The Ancient Mesopotamian Motif of kidinnu, "divine protection (of temple cities and their citizens)," in Akkadian and Aramaic Magic; Bibliography; Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira: Encounters between Iranian Myth and Rabbinic Mythmakers in the Babylonian Talmud; I. The Story of the Ridyā

This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various Mesopotamian connections, often neglected in the study of ancient Judaism, are the focus of this truly interdisciplinary collection. Reihe Texts and.

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