Shoshannat Yaakov" honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman s contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman s seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways that have transformed both disciplines, are well represented in this volume, together with scholarship that ranges from Second Temple Judaism to Late Antique Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Samaritanism and Christianity.