Discussing Cultural Influences Text, Context,

Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented here for the first time, the authors challenge the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, late antiquity, and the early medieval era.

Legal texts and codification in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 1
The term Midrash in Tannaitic literature	p. 41
Polemics and Rabbinic liturgy	p. 59
Rabbinizing Jesus, Christianizing the Son of David : the Bavli's approach to the secondary Messiah traditions	p. 99
'He in his cloak and she in her cloak' : conflicting images of sexuality in Sasanian Mesopotamia	p. 129
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai : literary motifs	p. 165
Visions of Egypt in Midrash : the Nile as the landscape of the other	p. 193
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Discussing Cultural Influences Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism

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