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Islamic historiography
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ISBN: 0521629365 0521620813 9780521629362 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism
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ISBN: 1280465204 9786610465200 1423714539 9047402782 9781423714538 9789004135833 9004135839 9789047402787 9004135839 Year: 2003 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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History 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.


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Unsere Väter und wir : Unterteilung von Geschichtsdarstellungen in Generationen und das Verhältnis der Generationen im Alten Testament
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ISBN: 3825703282 9783825703288 Year: 2003 Volume: 145 Publisher: Berlin Philo

Historiography in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9789004118812 9004118810 9786610464425 1417510498 1280464429 9047400577 9781417510498 9789047400578 9781280464423 6610464421 Year: 2003 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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A collection of 11 essays describing the writing of history in mediaeval Western Europe. Each chapter examines a type of subject matter about which mediaeval historians wrote, and discusses both the texts and modern approaches to these texts. The authors include historians and literary scholars.

Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615)
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ISBN: 9004129286 9004476172 9789004129283 9789004476172 Year: 2003 Volume: 94 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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This volume deals with the basic problem of how theologians of all confessions handled ancient, mainly Christian, history in the Reformation era. The author argues that far from being a mere tool of religious controversy, history was used throughout the 16th century to express profound religious and theological convictions and that historians and theologians of different confessions sought to define their religious identity by recourse to a particular historical method. By carefully comparing the types of historical documents produced by Calvinist, Lutheran and Roman Catholic circles, she throws a new light on patristic editions and manuals, the Centuries of Magdeburg , the Ecclesiastical Annals of Caesar Baronius and various collections of New Testament Apocrypha. Much of this material is examined here for the first time. The book substantially revises existing preconceptions about Reformation historiography and view of the past.

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