01693nam a2200181Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97890041358339004135839 eng BM406.9.H57 .N48 2004 Neusner, Jacob The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism / Jacob Neusner Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 xvii, 340 p. ; 25 cm. Brill reference library of Judaism ; 12 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. Midrash History and criticism.Historiography in rabbinical literature.Rabbinical literature History and criticism. 45656 45656