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Rabbinic parodies of Jewish and Christian literature

The research for this study on rabbinic Judaism has led to the publication of a complex two-pronged thesis. I illustrate that rabbis parodied Jewish as well as Christian texts. I apply the literary insights gained from the inner-Jewish parodies to the socio-historical aspects of the rabbinic interaction with Christianity, and vice versa. The study illustrates the existence of parody in all genres of late classical rabbinic literature. It therefore pays close attention to the exceedingly rich political, cultural, and especially linguistic minutiae of the Byzantine and the Sasanian Empires in which the documents under consideration were produced.