The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2003.
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| Series: | The Brill reference library of Judaism,
v. 12 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=133038 |
Table of 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.