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Contents Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations and Conventions xiii Chapter 1·Introduction 1 I. The Question 1 II. Factors Complicating Resolution of the Question 3 III. Prior Research on the Relationship between the Talmuds 8 IV. The Method of This Book 33 Chapter 2·B.Avodah Zarah Drew Sequences of Sugyot and Topics from Y.Avodah Zarah (Macro Analysis) 41 I. B.Avodah Zarah Tends to Appropriate Y.Avodah Zarah Sugyot (or Sequences of Two or More Y.Avodah Zarah Sugyot in the Same Order as Y.Avodah Zarah) Attached to the Same Mishnah 43 II. B.Avodah Zarah Builds a Complex Sugya Using Some Materials Marked as Relevant by the Y.Avodah Zarah Redactors 53 III. When Material in B.Avodah Zarah Has a Parallel in Y.Avodah Zarah and in Some Other Rabbinic Compilation, B.Avodah Zarah Tends to More Closely Resemble Y.Avodah Zarah 59 IV. Y.Avodah Zarah And B.Avodah Zarah Place Similar Material at a Similar Point in the Tractate, Although Not Attached to the Same Mishnaic Passage 69 V. Y.Avodah Zarah and B.Avodah Zarah Use the Same Mishnah as the Occasion to Explore the Same Legal Issue (Or Present Similar Genres of Materials) 73 VI. Did Y.Avodah Zarah Rely on Babylonian Sugyot in B.Avodah Zarah? 77 VII. Conclusion 85 Chapter 3·B.Avodah Zarah Sugyot as Secondary Reworkings of Y.Avodah Zarah Sugyot (Micro Analysis I) 87 I. B.Avodah Zarah Reworks Y.Avodah Zarah to Introduce a Babylonian Cultural or Halakhic Perspective or Linguistic Feature 101 II. B.Avodah Zarah Tends to Eliminate Materials of Particular Relevance to the Land of Israel or Its Roman Cultural Context 121 III. At Times B.Avodah Zarah Organizes Materials in a More Sensible Order Than Y.Avodah Zarah 125 IV. B.Avodah Zarah Views a Source in Connection with an Amoraic Concern That Y.Avodah Zarah Had Viewed in Connection with the Mishnah 136 V. B.Avodah Zarah Reworks Y.Avodah Zarah Sugyot in Order to Raise Legal Issues to a Higher Level of Abstraction 142 VI. Conclusion 147 Chapter 4·B.Avodah Zarah's Awareness of Y.Avodah Zarah's Editing (Micro Analysis II) 149 I. B.Avodah Zarah Begins at the Point at Which Y.Avodah Zarah Leaves Off 149 II. B.Avodah Zarah Answers a Question Left Virtually Unanswered in Y.Avodah Zarah 160 III. B.Avodah Zarah Moves in the Same Direction as Y.Avodah Zarah, But Uses Different Sources 163 IV. Conclusion 172 Chapter 5·The Provenance of Anonymous Material in the Bavli and the Role of Anonymous Material in B.Avodah Zarah's Appropriation of Y.Avodah Zarah(Micro Analysis III) 175 I. Precursors in the Study of the Anonymous Bavli in Relation to Palestinian Learning: Isaac Halevy and Zwi Moshe Dor 176 II. David Halivni's Contribution to the Study of the Anonymous Bavli 177 III. Anonymous Statements in the Bavli Can Be Attributed to Palestinian Amoraim 178 IV. Anonymous Material in B.Avodah Zarah That Is Also Anonymous in Y.Avodah Zarah 182 V. Anonymous Material in the Bavli That Cannot Be Shown to Be Palestinian 188 VI. Conclusion 195 Appendix: The Babylonian Anonymous Bavli Shows the Influence of a Babylonian Halakhic Agenda 196 Chapter 6·The Historical Context of B.Avodah Zarah's Appropriation of Y.Avodah Zarah 199 I. Palestine in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries 201 II. What Babylonian Generation Is Aware of Y.Avodah Zarah? 213 III. In What Form(s) Did the Redacted Yerushalmi Exist? 217 IV. Conclusion 233 Appendix: The Alleged Geonic Teshuvah in the Sefer ha-Eshkol 235 Chapter 7·Conclusion: Y.Avodah Zarah Influenced the Formation of B.Avodah Zarah 239 Appendix: Complete List of Sugyot Drawn from Y. Avodah Zarah by B. Avodah Zarah 243 Selected Bibliography 247 General Index 259
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Talmud Yerushalmi. Avodah zarah -- Comparative studies.
Talmud. Avodah zarah -- Comparative studies.