The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 340 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	The Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; v. 12 Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 12.
Subject:	Midrash -- History and criticism. Historiography in rabbinical literature. Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism. Judaism -- History -- Philosophy. History -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Historiography in rabbinical literature. History -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Judaism -- Philosophy. Midrash. Rabbinical literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11161773

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Varying Form of Title:	Toladot שער המעטפת: תולדות
ISBN:	1423714539 9781423714538 9789004135833 9004135839 9047402782 9789047402787 9004135839
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Neusner, Jacob, 1932- Idea of history in rabbinic Judaism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 9004135839

Table of 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.

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