During the Rabbinic period of Jewish history, the land of the Hebrew Bible was, so to speak, reconfigured in a plethora of statements transmitted in the two building blocks of the literature of the sages, in Talmud and Midrash. In this paper I will discuss the land according to a literary genre that is thought to be characteristic of the later part of this period, the Geonic period.

Constanza Cordoni received a PhD in Jewish studies (2016) and her venia legendi in Jewish studies (2021) from the University of Vienna. She is the author of Seder Eliyahu: A Narratological Reading (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018) and Reconfiguring the Land of Israel: A Rabbinic Project (Leiden: Brill, 2024).

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