Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity

Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men illuminate critical questions about power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of the Babylonian Talmud''s tractate on fasts in response to drought, this book shows how Bavli Taʿanit challenges Deuteronomy''s claim that virtue can assure abundance and that misfortune is an unambiguous sign of divine...