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041			_aeng
050			_aBM406.9.H57 _b.N48 2004
100			_aNeusner, Jacob
245		4	_aThe idea of history in rabbinic Judaism _b/ _cJacob Neusner
260			_aLeiden ; Boston : _bBrill, _c2004
300			_axvii, 340 p. _b; _c25 cm.
490			_aBrill reference library of Judaism ; _v12
505			_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.
650			_aMidrash History and criticism.Historiography in rabbinical literature.Rabbinical literature History and criticism.
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