Kiperwasser, Reuven. Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture. Vol. 369. SBL Press, 2021.I noted the publication of the book here.... My book examines narratives of Late Antiquity in which rabbinic figures travel either westward from Babylonia to Palestine or eastward from Palestine to Babylonia. They encounter local rabbis, local laypeople, and the practices and customs of these new settings. My study is the first in-depth research of the social, cultural, and religious aspects of the encounters between Babylonians and their Palestinian brethren from narratives dating between the third- to sixth-centuries. ...
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