The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism:
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Main Author: Neusner, Jacob (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2003
Series:Brill reference library of Judaism v. 12
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Item Description:Paralleltitel: Toladot
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 340 p.)
ISBN:1423714539
9004135839
9781423714538
9789004135833

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