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The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism (Record no. 46559)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 97890041358339004135839
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BM406.9.H57
Item number .N48 2004
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Neusner, Jacob
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Title The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism
Remainder of title /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jacob Neusner
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Leiden ; Boston :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Brill,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2004
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 340 p.
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Dimensions 25 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Brill reference library of Judaism ;
Volume/sequential designation 12
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Midrash History and criticism.Historiography in rabbinical literature.Rabbinical literature History and criticism.

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