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2009 International Meeting
Celebrating the Centenary of the PBI

Rome, Italy

Meeting Begins6/30/2009
Meeting Ends7/4/2009

Call for Papers Opens: 9/15/2008
Call for Papers Closes: 1/31/2009

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Palestine and Babylon: Two Jewish Late Antique Cultures and Their Interrelation


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: This year the section focuses on the later rabbinic cultures, Amoraic, Saboraic and the parallel Jewish cultures, such as Piyyut, liturgy, Hekhalot, magical texts etc. Here are some questions that we hope to be able to answer in the session this year: • Can we identify a Palestinian cultural continuum, where topics, figures, concepts, ideas or exegetical traditions are unique, or almost unique to the Land of Israel? What are the contents that are the basis of the Babylonian culture? Does it use Palestinian sources that are the ones less popular in the Land of Israel? • Are there places of conflict between the two cultures? How are such conflicts resolved? • Do we find that the later Palestinian sources succumbed to the Babylonian ones? If so how and when does this happen? Which elements survived from the early culture of the Land of Israel in the later sources?

Program Unit Chairs

Ronit Nikolsky

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