03036cam a2200517Ia 4500 ocn817828167 OCoLC 20200709055735.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 121013s2010 mdu o 000 0 eng d IDEBK IDEBK OCLCQ N$T 813535500 9780761852124 (electronic bk.) 0761852123 (electronic bk.) 1283655853 (electronic bk.) 9781283655859 (electronic bk.) 6613968358 (electronic bk.) 9786613968357 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)817828167 (OCoLC)813535500 537043 (N$T) BM496.9.N37 N475 2010 REL 040040 bisacsh 296.1 23 N$TA Neusner, Jacob, 1932- Narrative and document in the Rabbinic Canon. Volume II, The two Talmuds [electronic resource] / Jacob Neusner. Two Talmuds Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010. 1 online resource (297 p.). Studies in Judaism The author states in his preface: For a thousand years, from its earliest documents of the second century to the High Middle Ages, Rabbinic Judaism preferred to compose and collect anecdotes, not to construct of them sustained and connected biographies. This is a study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in some of the components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age, the documents of the first six centuries C.E., exclusive of the two Talmuds. A sage here is defined as a man who embodies the Rabbinic system. A sage-story, then, is an anecdote about the life and deeds of a Rabbinic sage. A biographical narrative in general is the record of things done on a concrete and specific past-tense occasion by named individuals. The stories are not told as part of a sustained biographical account of those individuals' lives, birth to death. I am able in this way to correlate the unfolding of the authorized biography in the counterpart-Christian one. The documentary hypothesis yields the correlation between the advent of the Christian authorized biography and the advent of the sage-story in the later documents of the Rabbinic canon. Narration in rabbinical literature. Rabbinical literature History and criticism. Mishnah Criticism, Narrative. RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings bisacsh Electronic books. Studies in Judaism. MyiLibrary http://www.myilibrary.com?id=396835 Table of contents http://www.myilibrary.com?id=396835&ref=toc EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=537043 Ingram Digital eBook Collection IDEB 396835 EBSCOhost EBSC 537043 cpp6067 02 N$T 52576 52576