Amram Tropper

Rewriting Ancient Jewish History (eBook, PDF)

The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method

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Produktbeschreibung

Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from sources. In response to these insights, a new historical method gradually emerged. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History critiques the traditional historical method and makes a case for the new one, illustrating how to write anew ancient Jewish history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317247081
• Artikelnr.: 49364891

Autorenporträt

Amram Tropper, Ph.D. (2002) Oxford University, is Senior Lecturer in Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University. His previous publications include Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography (Oxford, 2004), Like Clay in the Hands of the Potter (Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2011) and Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature (Brill, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Authenticity
Chapter 1: Can Multiple Versions of a Text be Equally Authentic?
Part II: Hermeneutics
Chapter 2: The Rabbis as Unusual Romans
Part III: Credibility
Chapter 3: An Introduction to Credibility: On Sources, Credibility and
Corroboration
Chapter 4: Recovering Josephus's Sources
Chapter 5: Josephus and History
Chapter 6: The Traditional Historical Method on the Credibility of Rabbinic
Literature
Chapter 7: The Collapse of the Traditional Presumptions about Rabbinic
Literature
Chapter 8: The New Historical Method on the Credibility of Rabbinic
Literature: Three Case Studies
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 9: On Hillel the Elder's Rise to Greatness
Epilogue
Bibliography