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Rabbi Moses
A Documentary Catalogue
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2013
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This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics. Specifically, Neusner demonstrates the capacity of the Rabbinic sages to read ideas attested in their own day as authoritative testaments to — to them — ancient times. Thus, Scripture was read as integral testimony to the contemporary scene.
About a millennium — 750 B.C. E. to 350 C. E. — separates Scripture’s prophets from the later sages of the Mishnah and the Talmud. It is quite natural to recognize evidence for differences over a long period of time. Yet Judaism sees itself as a continuum and overcomes difference. The latecomers portray the ancients like themselves. “In our image, after our likeness” captures the current aspiration. The sages accommodated the later documents in their canon by finding the traits of their own time in the record of the remote past. They met the challenges to perfection that the sages brought about.
Of what does the process of harmonization consist? To answer that question the author surveys the presentation of the prophets by the rabbis, beginning with Moses. To overcome the gap, Rabbinic sages turn Moses into a sage like themselves. The prophet performs wonders. The sage sets forth reasonable rulings. The conclusion expands on this account of matters to show the categorical solution that the sages adopted for themselves, and that is the happy outcome of the study.
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2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6091-4
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978-0-7618-6092-1
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
143
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
1 Moses in the Mishnah and Abot No access Pages 1 - 6
2 Moses in the Tosefta No access Pages 7 - 12
3 Moses in Sifra No access Pages 13 - 14
4 Moses in Sifré to Numbers and Sifré Zutta to Numbers No access Pages 15 - 18
5 Moses in Sifré to Deuteronomy No access Pages 19 - 26
6 Moses in Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael No access Pages 27 - 36
7 Moses in Genesis Rabbah No access Pages 37 - 42
8 Moses in Leviticus Rabbah No access Pages 43 - 46
9 Moses in Pesiqta Derab Kahana No access Pages 47 - 52
10 Moses in Esther Rabbah I No access Pages 53 - 54
11 Moses in Song of Songs Rabbah No access Pages 55 - 56
12 Moses in Ruth Rabbah No access Pages 57 - 60
13 Moses in Lamentations Rabbah No access Pages 61 - 70
14 Moses in the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan No access Pages 71 - 84
15 Moses in Yerushalmi Berakhot and Zeraim No access Pages 85 - 88
16 Moses in Yerushalmi Moed No access Pages 89 - 96
17 Moses in Yerushalmi Nashim No access Pages 97 - 98
18 Moses in Yerushalmi Neziqin No access Pages 99 - 102
19 Moses in Bavli Berakhot No access Pages 103 - 106
20 Moses in Bavli Moed No access Pages 107 - 114
21 Moses in Bavli Nashim No access Pages 115 - 118
22 Moses in Bavli Neziqin, Bavli Sanhedrin No access Pages 119 - 122
23 Moses in Bavli Qodoshim and Niddah No access Pages 123 - 126
24 Moses as a Figure in the Documentary Catalogue No access Pages 127 - 143
