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
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
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).
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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
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
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