The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, #12)

by Jacob Neusner

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History provides one way of marking time, but there are others, like the Judaism of the dual Torah, set forth in the Rabbinic literature from the Mishnah through the Talmud of Babylonia, which 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 gave way to another mode of thought altogether.
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.
  • ISBN10 1423714539
  • ISBN13 9781423714538
  • Publish Date December 2003 (first published 12 December 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill
  • Format eBook
  • Language English