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The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism

What Kinds of Questions did the Ancient Rabbis Answer?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Jacob Neusner*
Affiliation:
Bard College Annandale‐on‐Hudson, New York

Abstract

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© The author 2008. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK, and 350 Main Street, Malden MA 02148, USA

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References

1 Here I recast some of the findings of my The Presence of the Past, the Pastness of the Present. History, Time, and Paradigm in Rabbinic Judaism. Bethesda, 1996: CDL Press. Second edition, revised and augmented by six new chapters: The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism. Leiden, 2004: E. J. Brill.

2 LeGoff, Jacques, History and Memory (N.Y., 1992: Columbia University Press). Translated by Randall, Steven and Claman, Elizabeth, p. xii.Google Scholar