Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud

Markham J. Geller, Ph.D (1974), Brandeis University, is Professor of Semitic Languages and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London, currently on secondment to the Freie University Berlin as Professor für Wissensgeschichte. He is Principal Investigator of BabMed, an Advanced ERC Project.

• AcknowledgementsThe ContributorsIntroduction: The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud, Markum. J. GellerLand behind Ctesiphon: the Archaeology of Babylonia during the Period of the Babylonian Talmud, St John Simpson‘Recycling economies, when efficient, are by their nature invisible.’ A First Century Jewish Recycling Economy, Matthew Ponting and Dan LeveneThe Cedar in Jewish Antiquity, Michael StoneSince when do Women go to Miqveh? Archaeological and Rabbinic Evidence, Tal IlanRabbis in Incantation Bowls, Shaul ShakedDivorcing a Demon: Incantation Bowls and BT Giṭṭin 85b, Siam BhayroLilith’s Hair and Ashmedai’s Horns: Incantation Bowl Imagery in the Light of Talmudic Descriptions, Naama ViloznyThe Material World of Babylonia as seen from Roman Palestine: Some Preliminary Observations, Yaron EliavTravel Between Palestine and Mesopotamia during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A Preliminary Study, Getzel Cohen (z’’l)Shopping in Ctesiphon: A Lesson in Sasanian Commercial Practice, Yaakov ElmanSubstance and Fruit in the Sasanian Law of Property and the Babylonian Talmud, Maria MacuchRabbinic, Christian, and Local Calendars in Late Antique Babylonia: Influence and Shared Culture, Sacha Stern‘Manasseh sawed Isaiah with a Saw of Wood:’ an Ancient Legend in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Persian Sources, Richard KalminBiblical ‘Archaeology’ and Babylonian Rabbis: On the Self-Image of Jews in Sasanian Babylonia, Isaiah GafniLoanwords in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: Some Preliminary Observations, Theodore KwasmanThe Gymnasium at Babylon and Jerusalem, Markham J. Geller and D. T. PottsIndex