What is it about?
This article explores the beginning and early history of one of the most interesting and enduring Jewish legends, that of a river that ceases to flow or dries out on the Sabbath.
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Why is it important?
This article places Roman sources, rabbinic sources, and the writings of Flavius Josephus in dialogue with one another and in doing so shows that this important Jewish legend has a hidden history that can be uncovered.
Perspectives
I believe this is a fun read that really enables the reader to understand why the legend of a Shabbat-observant river came into existence and what purposes it lserved.
Professor Daniel Stein Kokin
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitat Greifswald
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This page is a summary of: Toward the Source of the Sambatyon: Shabbat Discourse and the Origins of the Sabbatical River Legend, AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, April 2013, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1017/s0364009413000019.
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