Persia and Rome in Classical Judaism
- ISBN-10
- 0761841024
- ISBN-13
- 9780761841029
- Category
- Byzantine Empire
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Author
- Jacob Neusner
Description
This book examines the representation of Rome and Persia (Iran) in the successive groups of documents that comprise the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity.
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