Creation and Composition: The Contribution of the Bavli Redactors (Stammaim ... - Google Books

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The contributors to this book analyze how the redactors of the Talmud transformed and reworked earlier aggadic (non-legal) traditions. Critical study of the Babylonian Talmud is founded on the distinction between two literary strata: traditions attributed…