1. Rabbinic Traditions between Palestine and Babylonia: An Introduction2. Can Source-Criticism Perform Magic on Talmudic Passages about Sorcery?3. No Boundaries for the Construction of Boundaries: The Babylonian Talmud’s Emphasis on Demarcation of Identity4. Midgets and Mules, Elephants and Exilarchs: On the Metamorphosis of a Polemical Amoraic Story5. Rescue from Transgression through Death; Rescue from Death through Transgression6. A Tale of Two Sinais: On the Reception of the Torah according to bShab88a7. Heaven and Hell: Babylonia and the Land of Israel in the Bavli8. From Disagreement to Talmudic Discourse: Progymnasmata and the Evolution of a Rabbinic Genre9. The Misfortunes and Adventures of Elihoreph and Ahiah in the Land of Israel and in Babylonia: The Metamorphosis of a Narrative Tradition and Ways of Acculturation10. Commercial Law in Rome and Ctesiphon: Roman Jurisconsults, Rabbis and Sasanian Dastwars on Risk11. From Palestine to Babylonia and Back: The Place of the Bavli and the Tanhumaon the Rabbinic Cultural Continuum12. Was Rabbi Aqiva a Martyr? Palestinian and Babylonian Influences in the Development of a Legend