The conclusion remains, as it does with many other cultural studies,[2] somewhat banal: Babylonian rabbis were caught somewhere between Christian Roman Palestine and Zoroastrian Persia.
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"This project investigates the meaning and usage of a particular set of linguistically related Talmudic terms in order to show how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the emerging scholastic centers of rabbinic learning in late Sassanian Babylonia."
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