Bibil Identifier |
bibil:216570 |
Publication Type |
Journal article |
Title (Modern Hebrew, Long) |
רבי מאיר והשומרונים: בין הירושלמי והבבלי |
Author |
Hamitovsky, Itzhak |
Journal |
Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal (Volume: 8) |
Year (Publication) |
2009 |
Year (Original (1st Edition)) |
2009 |
Year (Copyright) |
2009 |
Year (Reference) |
2009 |
Language |
Modern Hebrew |
Pages |
9-34 Pages |
Genre |
Original |
Notes |
Titre en anglais: "Rabbi Meir and the Samaritans: The Differences Between the Accounts in the Yerushalmi and the Bavli". |
Abstract |
This article seeks to show how the Babylonian sources placed much greater emphasis than their Palestinian parallels on the role Rabbi Meir played in connection with the changing Halakhic status of the Samaritan community. This conclusion is based on an analysis of the tannaitic sources dealing with Rabbi Meir’s relation to the Samaritans and a comparison between the Babylonian sugyot in BK 38b and Hullin 5b-6a and their Palestinian counterparts. It is suggested that according to both the tannaitic sources and the Palestinian Amoraic sources, Rabbi Meir did not make any significant contribution to the halakhic campaign against the Samaritans. Rather, it appears from these sources that Rabbi Shimon b. Eleazar, Rabbi Meir’s student, played a significant role in this campaign, during the late second century CE. The redactors of the Babylonian sources, following literary patterns attested elsewhere in the Babylonian Talmud, attributed Rabbi Shimon b. Eleazar's position to his teacher, Rabbi Meir. If my analysis is correct, the attribution of this position to Rabbi Meir constitutes yet another example of the transformation of Palestinian stories by Babylonian sources in light of the concerns of the Babylonian redactors. |
Keywords |
Thesaurus BiBIL : Milieu : Ancient Judaism : Literature : Talmud (Babli and Yerushalmi) Thesaurus BiBIL : Milieu : Ancient Judaism : Important Persons and Movements : Talmudic Period : Rabbinism : Tannaim : Third Generation : Meir Thesaurus BiBIL : Milieu : Ancient Judaism : Religious Parties and Movements : Samaritans |
Links |
Online document (PDF, Modern Hebrew)
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Last modification |
2017-10-27 |
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