04380nam 22006972 450 991045011460332120210531145055.01-280-46520-497866104652001-4237-1453-990-474-0278-210.1163/9789047402787(CKB)1000000000033100(EBL)253759(OCoLC)666960166(SSID)ssj0000175983(PQKBManifestationID)11922880(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175983(PQKBWorkID)10204231(PQKB)11521539(MiAaPQ)EBC253759(Au-PeEL)EBL253759(CaPaEBR)ebr10089758(CaONFJC)MIL46520(OCoLC)935229585(OCoLC)191951625(nllekb)BRILL9789047402787(EXLCZ)99100000000003310020200716d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism /Jacob NeusnerLeiden; Boston :BRILL,2004.1 online resource (360 p.)The Brill Reference Library of Judaism ;12Description based upon print version of record.90-04-13583-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition, Revised and Augmented; Introduction; Part One HISTORY, TIME, AND PARADIGM IN SCRIPTURE; Part Two The absence of History; Part Three The Presence of the Past, The Pastness of the Present; Part Four From History to Paradigm; Part Five Transcending the Bounds of Time; Part Six Five Supplementary Studies: A Documentary Account of the Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism; Subject index; Index of Ancient SourcesHistory provides one way of marking time. But there are others, and the Judaism of the dual Torah, set forth in the Rabbinic literature from the Mishnah through the Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 200-600 C.E., defines one such alternative. This book tells the story of how a historical way of thinking about past, present, and future, time and eternity, the here and now in relationship to the ages, « that is, Scripture's way of thinking » gave way to another mode of thought altogether. This other model Neusner calls a paradigm, because a pattern imposed meaning and order on things that happened. Paradigmatic modes of thought took the place of historical ones. Thinking through paradigms, with a conception of time that elides past and present and removes all barriers between them, in fact governs the reception of Scripture in Judaism until nearly our own time. Neusner here explains through the single case of Rabbinic Judaism, precisely how that other way of reading Scripture did its work, and why, for so many centuries, that reading of the heritage of ancient Israel governed. At stake are [1] a conception of time different from the historical one and [2] premises on how to take the measure of time that form a legitimate alternative to those that define the foundations of the historical way of measuring time. Fully exposed, those alternative premises may prove as logical and compelling as the historical ones. The approach follows the documentary history of ideas, and individual chapters describe the treatment of historical topics in the Mishnah, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (a.k.a., the Yerushalmi), Genesis Rabbah, that is, ca. 200, 400, and 450 CE, and Pesiqta deRab Kahana, ca. 500 CE.The Brill Reference Library of Judaism ;12.Historiography in rabbinical literatureHistoryReligious aspectsJudaismJudaismHistoryPhilosophyRabbinical literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Historiography in rabbinical literature.HistoryReligious aspectsJudaism.JudaismHistoryPhilosophy.Rabbinical literatureHistory and criticism.296.1/208901Neusner Jacob147791NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910450114603321The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism1953514UNINA