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From History to Hermeneutics: The Talmud as a Historical Source

From History to Hermeneutics: The Talmud as a Historical Source 1 I collected a variety of debates, including my own debate with Dr. Zeev Safrai, in Judaism in Late Antiquity . Volume Three. Where We Stand: Issues and Debates . Part One. In the series, Handbuch der Orientalistik. Judaistik . Leiden, 1999: E.J. Brill. Edited with Alan J. Avery-Peck. Paperback edition: Boston, 2002: E.J. Brill. Judaism in Late © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 Review of Rabbinic Judaism 11.2 Also available online – www.brill.nl FROM HISTORY TO HERMENEUTICS: THE TALMUD AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE Jacob Neusner Bard College I. The End of “Talmudic History” So far as history claims exactly to spell out events that happened at a particular place and time, the Talmud and the rest of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity do not serve. They do not supply reliable historical information about once upon a time. Rabbinic documents contain stories about things that allegedly took place, which we can- not validate or invalidate. They record statements in the name of biblical and Rabbinic authorities, which we have no means of ver- ifying or falsifying. They describe a social order, evidence for which we cannot locate in material records, and institutions the record or impact of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Rabbinic Judaism Brill

From History to Hermeneutics: The Talmud as a Historical Source

Neusner, Jacob
Review of Rabbinic Judaism , Volume 11 (2): 200 – Jan 1, 2008
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1 I collected a variety of debates, including my own debate with Dr. Zeev Safrai, in Judaism in Late Antiquity . Volume Three. Where We Stand: Issues and Debates . Part One. In the series, Handbuch der Orientalistik. Judaistik . Leiden, 1999: E.J. Brill. Edited with Alan J. Avery-Peck. Paperback edition: Boston, 2002: E.J. Brill. Judaism in Late © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 Review of Rabbinic Judaism 11.2 Also available online – www.brill.nl FROM HISTORY TO HERMENEUTICS: THE TALMUD AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE Jacob Neusner Bard College I. The End of “Talmudic History” So far as history claims exactly to spell out events that happened at a particular place and time, the Talmud and the rest of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity do not serve. They do not supply reliable historical information about once upon a time. Rabbinic documents contain stories about things that allegedly took place, which we can- not validate or invalidate. They record statements in the name of biblical and Rabbinic authorities, which we have no means of ver- ifying or falsifying. They describe a social order, evidence for which we cannot locate in material records, and institutions the record or impact of

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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