This is part of a 2024 Association for Jewish Studies panel celebrating the publication of Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity (Cambridge Press, 2024). Read the full forum here.I noted the first two essays in the series here and here.... Aside from the immense value of this book for the study of Jewish history (this is the first monograph on Babylonian Jewish history in decades), its dynamic mode of approaching Babylonian Jewry in the space of the Sasanian Empire has also been critical for someone like me —less a historian of Babylonian Judaism, and more, a student of the text of the Babylonian Talmud. ...
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