Originally published in Studies in aggadah, targum and Jewish liturgy in memory of Joseph Heinemann, ed. Jakob J. Petuchowski & Ezra Fleischer. Jerusalem: Magnes Press; Hebrew Union College Press, 1981: 32-44 (Engl. Section). Republ. in L. Jacobs. Rabbinic thought in the Talmud, London; Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005: 68-78. The Sugya on Sufferings in…