Talmudic Itineraria and Talmudic Pilgrimage: Tracing the Genre in the Babylonian Talmud

Grossmark, Tziona

doi:10.5325/mediterraneanstu.20.1.0088

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Research Article| May 16 2012

Talmudic Itineraria and Talmudic Pilgrimage: Tracing the Genre in the Babylonian Talmud

Tziona Grossmark

Tel-Hai College

Tziona Grossmark is a senior lecturer, Multidisciplinary Studies Department and the Department of Education, ex-dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Tel-Hai College. She is the author of Travel Narratives in Rabbinic Literature: Voyages to Imaginary Realms (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).

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Mediterranean Studies (2012) 20 (1): 88–113.

https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.20.1.0088

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The absence in the Talmudic records of pilgrimages as one of the motives for travel raises the question as to whether such journeys took place during those times. This article asserts that some of the literary descriptions of ventures undertaken by Babylonian sages actually depict a kind of pilgrimage.

2012

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