Rewriting Ancient Jewish History: The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method

ISBN-13: 9780367877095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Amram Tropper

Opis

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 histor

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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

O autorze

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).