Time Quote by James John Courtenay

“There are difficulties involved in regarding the Babylonian tradition as a single or homogeneous phenomenon following just one line of development. If, despite this,…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The whole traditional civil and moral cult of the Judaism, was inspired and elaborated during the Exile on the model of Babylonian worship and…

— James John Courtenay

“Far from it; the Talmudic centres were so distant from Arabia, and the prevailing lifestyles so different that we can imagine a local, exotic…

— Harry Freedman

“135 years later, in 586 BCE, the Babylonians conquered Judea, the southern kingdom. They destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and forced thousands of Jews…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“It is impossible to make a clear distinction between Babylonia and Assyria.”

— James John Courtenay

“The Babylonian Jews in the Sasanian Empire, living in a non-Christian and even progressively anti-Christian environment, could easily take up, and continue, the discourse…

— Peter Schäfer

“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.”

— Abigail Green

When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its…

— Joseph Hertz

“during the long period which elapsed between the Egyptian and the Babylonian servitudes, the hopes as well as fears of the Jews appear to…

— Edward Gibbon

“so many Jews in Alexandria spoke only Greek that the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek for their benefit. Yet they remained Jews.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Their Jewishness is visible in their physical appearance, and one notices their Jewish heritage in their intellectual work.”

— Alexander Kennedy

“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos