Between Rome and Babylon - Studies in Jewish Leadership and Society.

RARE collection of over thirty papers on Jewish life in Palestine and Babylonia in Mishnaic and Talmudic periods by Aharon Oppenheimer - Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of the acclaimed 'Babylonia Judaica in the Talmudic Period'. Most of the papers, originally published in Hebrew, have been selected and edited for this collection, and translated for the first time into English or German. Includes cross-references and detailed indices. 235x160mm. XVI+500 pages [+4]. Blue cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt emblem on spine. Jacket dirty/slightly stained. Jacket edges slightly wrinkled. Cover bottom edge and spine upper edge slightly bumped. This extremely rare book, a major contribution to the study of Palestinian and Babylonian Jewry in the period of the Mishna and the Talmud, is in good condition.

Edizione: [zwischen rom und babylon - historische untersuchungen zu jüdischer kultur, gesellschaft und deren führung]. [series]: texts and studies in ancient judaism / texte und studien zum antiken judentum (tsaj) - 108.