TY - JOUR
T1 - You can't go home again
T2 - The Bavli's story of Honi's big sleep as inversion of the Yerushalmi's account
AU - Simon-Shoshan, Moshe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 2021.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - This article presents an original reading of the Bavli account of Honi's 70-year sleep. It argues that printed editions present a corrupt reading of Honi's initial statement, which originally read 'Seventy years like a dream!', expressing Honi's existential dread of his own mortality. The story must further be understood as a conscious inversion of the Yerushalmi's version of the tale, rejecting the Yerushalmi's optimistic vision of the role of individual holy men in Jewish history in favour of a tragic account of individual loneliness.
AB - This article presents an original reading of the Bavli account of Honi's 70-year sleep. It argues that printed editions present a corrupt reading of Honi's initial statement, which originally read 'Seventy years like a dream!', expressing Honi's existential dread of his own mortality. The story must further be understood as a conscious inversion of the Yerushalmi's version of the tale, rejecting the Yerushalmi's optimistic vision of the role of individual holy men in Jewish history in favour of a tragic account of individual loneliness.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117322606&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18647/3503/jjs-2021
DO - 10.18647/3503/jjs-2021
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AN - SCOPUS:85117322606
SN - 0022-2097
VL - 72
SP - 257
EP - 282
JO - Journal of Jewish Studies
JF - Journal of Jewish Studies
IS - 2
ER -