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There and Back Again: A Journey to Ashkelon and Its Intertexts in Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:6 (=Hagigah 2:2)
- Author(s):
- Amit Gvaryahu (see profile)
- Editor(s):
- Maren Niehoff
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Late Antiquity
- Subject(s):
- Rabbis, Judaism--Study and teaching, Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient, Religion
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Yerusahlmi, Ashkelon, hell, journeys, Rabbinic studies, Late Antiquity, Religions of late Antiquity
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6BC35
- Abstract:
- Every place is accompanied by its own set of etiologies, origin-stories, local histories, urban myths, folklore, rumors, and gossip. A story about a journey is also about transitioning between different narratives and modes of being. In this essay I discuss one such story, about a lonely disciple from Ashkelon, a rabbinic figure named Shimʿon b. Shatah,̣ and forty witches. It is a strange story, found only in the Palestinian Talmud. Its textual tradition is complex, it contains a host of obscure characters, and for rabbinic literature it is uncharacteristically long.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Mohr Siebeck
- Book Title:
- Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real (CRPG 1)
- Author/Editor:
- Maren R. Niehoff
- Page Range:
- 139 - 154
- ISBN:
- 978-3-16-155111-6
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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There and Back Again: A Journey to Ashkelon and Its Intertexts in Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:6 (=Hagigah 2:2)