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100 1 _aGrossmark, Tziona.
245 1 0 _aTravel Narratives in Rabbinic Literature
_h[electronic resource] :
_bVoyages to Imaginary Realms.
260 _aLewiston :
_bEdwin Mellen Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (267 p.)
505 0 _aTRAVEL NARRATIVES IN RABBINIC LITERATURE: Voyages to Imaginary Realms; Copyright Page; Dedications; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: 'Come and I Will Show You Where Heaven and Earth Touch One Another'; Part One: Background; Chapter 1: Rabbinic Literature, Historical Background and Methodological Outline; Chapter 2: Biography in Rabbinic Literature, Some Preliminary Observations; Chapter 3: 'Being There', A Few Comments on Travelers' Tales; Chapter 4: Rabba bar Bar Hanna, A Literary Biography.
505 8 _aChapter 5: 'He Who Sells a Ship', The Talmudic Context of Rabba bar Bar Hanna's Travelers' TalesPart Two: The Tales; Chapter 6: 'The Wave that Sinks a Ship', In the Perils of the Tides; Chapter 7: 'I saw Hormin the son of Lilith', A Demon on the Walls of Mahuza; Chapter 8: Monstrous Creatures, 'I Saw an Antelope, One Day Old that was as Big as Mount Tabor'; Chapter 9: Spinning a Yarn, 'Once We Were Traveling on Board a Ship and Saw a Fish'; Chapter 10: 'Shall We Have a Share of Your Flesh?', On Mythical Birds and Eschatological Perceptions.
505 8 _aChapter 11: 'We were once traveling in a desert', Rabba bar Bar Hanna in the Footsteps of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness of SinaiChapter 12: Back to the Sea, On Precious Stones and Sea Monsters; Epilogue: 'And There would be an End of All My Adventures'; Ch. N. Bialik, The Dead of the Wilderness; Appendices; Appendix 1 -- The 21 Tales, An analytical table; Appendix 3 -- The use of the formulas in other rabbinic texts; Appendix 4 -- Division of the tales into clusters; Appendix 5 -- The sequence of Travelers' tales; Appendix 6 -- O(r)zila de-yama (b.B. Bat. 74b).
505 8 _aAppendix 7 -- The Hebrew TextAppendix 8 -- A comparison of b.B. Bat. 74a and b. Ber. 3a; Appendix 9 -- A comparison of tales nos. 18-19; Bibliography; Indices; Index of Passages from Rabbinical Literature; Index of Hebrew and Aramaic Words; Index of Sages; General Index.
520 _aAs a literary genre travelers' stories have grown out of oral traditions. These traditions flourished along the trade routes of the ancient world. Indeed the roads around the Mediterranean basin were busy with traffic during the Roman and Byzantine periods. This anthology of twenty-one travelers' tales examines the Talmudic tales as an inter-cultural phenomenon.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 4 _aBiography in rabbinical literature.
650 4 _aRabbinical literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aRabbinical literature.
650 0 _aBiography in rabbinical literature.
650 0 _aRabbinical literature
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_tTravel Narratives in Rabbinic Literature : Voyages to Imaginary Realms
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