Volume II The two Talmuds Neusner, Jacob 1932- creator text Electronic books. mdu Lanham, Md University Press of America c2010 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (297 p.). 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. Jacob Neusner. Narration in rabbinical literature Rabbinical literature History and criticism Criticism, Narrative RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings BM496.9.N37 N475 2010 296.1 9780761852124 (electronic bk.) 0761852123 (electronic bk.) 1283655853 (electronic bk.) 9781283655859 (electronic bk.) 6613968358 (electronic bk.) 9786613968357 (electronic bk.) http://www.myilibrary.com?id=396835 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=396835&ref=toc http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=537043 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=396835 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=396835&ref=toc http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=537043 IDEBK 121013 20200709055735.0 ocn817828167