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April 23, 2026Open Access

The Reception of Paradoxography in the Babylonian Talmud

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MAMonika AmslerUniversity of Bern

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Implication

The article demonstrates how rabbinic sages analyze nature miracles in biblical texts, suggesting a deeper inquiry into the natural world.

Key Points

  • The article aims to explore how the Babylonian Talmud uses nature miracles to unlock biblical mysteries and connect them to the natural world.
  • Analyzes a series of short stories from tractate Baba Batra 73b-74b and their parallels in the Talmud.
  • Examines how the Talmudic authors incorporated paradoxographic traditions to interpret nature and the biblical text.
  • Builds on recent scholarship on ancient inquiry to provide a new perspective on the nature of these stories.
  • The stories reflect a complex engagement with nature miracles, seen as an inquiry into contemporary understandings of the natural world.
  • Rabbinic sages employed knowledge from paradoxographies to interpret biblical texts and natural phenomena.
  • Earlier interpretations that dismissed these tales as mere entertainment are challenged by evidence of systematic analytical thought.

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Monika Amsler (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e9b95b85696592c86ec186https://doi.org/10.48620/97122
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