Abstract
This chapter examines a non-rabbinic tradition that originated in the Roman East during the early centuries of the Common Era. In rabbinic Christian literature, this tradition is attested in the Bavli by the latest Babylonian rabbis. The same tradition is attested at roughly the same time in Christian literature in the form of a Syriac text from Mesopotamia, a parallel that seems to lend credence to the cultural link between rabbinic Babylonia and Christian Mesopotamia during late antiquity. This tradition could have also independently reached the Bavli and Mesopotamian Christians at about the same time. To illustrate these claims, the chapter analyzes a sugya in b. Megillah 8a–9a, together with some of its most important Jewish and non-Jewish parallels.
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