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Document Details : Title: Rabbah Bar Bar Hanna in the Footsteps of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness Subtitle: Perception of the Sinai Desert in Some Rabbinic Travellers' Tales Author(s): GROSSMARK, Tziona Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Volume: 54 Date: 2017 Pages: 17-29 DOI: 10.2143/ANES.54.0.3206230 Abstract : Our paper focuses on four short tales that belong to a cycle of some 20 travel stories from tractate Bava Batra of the Babylonian Talmud, most of them attributed to Rabba Bar Bar Hanna. The anonymous editor of Rabba’s collection of narratives wove these four accounts into a separate unit within the anthology of tales in tractate Bava Batra. Through these short narratives one may see the dialectical process of shaping rabbinic perceptions of the Sinai desert — not so much a real, geographical location as a liminal, mythical sphere. |
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