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Author Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.

Title The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism / by Jacob Neusner.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 340 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; v. 12
Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- pt. 1. History, time, and paradigm in scripture. Hebrew scripture and the requirements of historical thinking -- History, time, and paradigm -- pt. 2. The absence of history. Missing media of historical thinking (I): the sustaining narrative of one-time events, biography -- Missing messages of historical thinking (II): the pastness of the past -- pt. 3. The presence of the past, the pastness of the present. The enduring paradigm -- pt. 4. From history to paradigm. Narrative: the conduct of the cult and the story of the temple -- Biography: exemplary pattern in place of lives of sages -- pt. 5. Transcending the bounds of time. Zakhor: is rabbinic Judaism a religion of memory? -- pt. 6. Five supplementary studies: a documentary account of the idea of history in rabbinic Judaism. The Mishnah's conception of history -- The Yerushalmi's conception of history -- Genesis rabbah and the history of Israel -- Astral Israel in Pesiqta deRab Kahana -- What, exactly, do we mean by "an event" in Judaism? Address at Collège de France, Paris, 1990.
Summary Using Rabbinic Judaism as a case study, Neusner (religion and theology, Bard College) explains how Judaism and Christianity ordinarily read Scripture before the advent of historicism about two centuries ago that is, for most of their history. The difference between historical and what he calls paradigmatic thinking, he says, is how time is marked a.
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Subject Midrash -- History and criticism.
Midrash.
Historiography in rabbinical literature.
Historiography in rabbinical literature.
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
Rabbinical literature.
Judaism -- History -- Philosophy.
Judaism.
History.
Philosophy.
History -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
History -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Indexed Term Humaniora Religionsvidenskab.
Humaniora Jødisk kultur og historie.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Cover Title Toladot
Note שער המעטפת: תולדות
Other Form: Print version: Neusner, Jacob, 1932- Idea of history in rabbinic Judaism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 9004135839 (DLC) 2003065309 (OCoLC)53231836
ISBN 1423714539 (electronic book)
9781423714538 (electronic book)
9789004135833 (alkaline paper)
9004135839 (alkaline paper)
9047402782
9789047402787
9004135839 (alkaline paper)