Contents

מהתם להכא , from There to Here (bSanh 5a), Rabbinic Traditions between Palestine and Babylonia: An Introduction

Now You See it, Now You Don’t: Can Source-Criticism Perform Magic on Talmudic Passages about Sorcery?

No Boundaries for the Construction of Boundaries: The Babylonian Talmud’s Emphasis on Demarcation of Identity

Midgets and Mules, Elephants and Exilarchs: On the Metamorphosis of a Polemical Amoraic Story

Rescue from Transgression through Death; Rescue from Death through Transgression

A Tale of Two Sinais: On the Reception of the Torah according to bShab 88a

Heaven and Hell: Babylonia and the Land of Israel in the Bavli

From Disagreement to Talmudic Discourse: Progymnasmata and the Evolution of a Rabbinic Genre

The Misfortunes and Adventures of Elihoreph and Ahiah in the Land of Israel and in Babylonia: The Metamorphosis of a Narrative Tradition and Ways of Acculturation

Commercial Law in Rome and Ctesiphon: Roman Jurisconsults, Rabbis and Sasanian Dastwars on Risk

From Palestine to Babylonia and Back: The Place of the Bavli and the Tanhuma on the Rabbinic Cultural Continuum

Was Rabbi Aqiva a Martyr? Palestinian and Babylonian Influences in the Development of a Legend

Index of Sources

Index оf Authors

Index оf Rabbinic Names

Index оf Place Names

General Index