| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 340 pages) |
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The Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; v. 12 |
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Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 12.
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Religionsvidenskab |
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Humaniora Jødisk kultur og historie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Midrash -- History and criticism
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| Subject |
Historiography in rabbinical literature.
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
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Judaism -- History -- Philosophy
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History -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud.
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Historiography in rabbinical literature
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History -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Judaism -- Philosophy
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Midrash
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Rabbinical literature
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Rabbinische Literatur
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Rabbijnse literatuur.
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Tijd.
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Geschiedenis.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423714539 |
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9781423714538 |
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9789004135833 |
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9004135839 |
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9047402782 |
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9789047402787 |
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