01647nam a2200157Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002800077100002000105245006300125260003800188300002800226490004500254505107100299650011901370230823s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97890041358339004135839  aeng  aBM406.9.H57 b.N48 2004  aNeusner, Jacob  4aThe idea of history in rabbinic Judaism b/cJacob Neusner  aLeiden ; Boston : bBrill, c2004  axvii, 340 p.b;c25 cm.  aBrill reference library of Judaism ;v12  aIntroduction -- 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.  aMidrash History and criticism.Historiography in rabbinical literature.Rabbinical literature History and criticism.