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050 00 $aBM501.2.E45$bG67 2000
082 00 $a296.1/2/0092$aB$221
100 1 $aGoshen-Gottstein, Alon.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94080955
245 14 $aThe sinner and the amnesiac :$bthe rabbinic invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach /$cAlon Goshen-Gottstein.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c2000.
300 $axii, 416 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aContraversions
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 389-401) and index.
520 1 $a"This book systematically analyzes all sources referring to Elisha ben Abuya, and in so doing, confronts the difficulties of deriving reliable information from rabbinic materials and of writing the biography of a rabbinic hero. The author argues that we have no way of discovering the historical Elisha ben Ahuya; he is the product of the creative handling of traditions by later generations.
520 8 $aLater generations do not fancifully invent the figure of Elisha but interpret and transmit earlier traditions, trying to resolve the contradictions and to interpret the enigmas they encounter. In the context of this interpretive process a unique historical image is created, a sage who is born out of tradition, not historical memory.".
520 8 $a"The book also studies Rabbi Eleazar ben Arach. Here, too, the image of the sage does not stem from a historical memory of the sage but from an ideological function which the image of the sage fulfills. Eleazar has come down to us as one who forgot his Torah.
520 8 $aThus, both the sage who is said to have become the greatest of rabbinic sinners and the sage who is said to have forgotten his Torah are products of the literary creativity of rabbinic storytellers who convey a particular ideology through the image of the rabbinic heroes they portray."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aElisha ben Avuyah,$dapproximately 70-approximately 135.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86066037
600 00 $aEleazar ben Arakh,$dactive 1st century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00045752
650 0 $aTannaim$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010115416
650 0 $aRabbinical literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110327
830 0 $aContraversions (Stanford, Calif.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98038398
852 00 $bglx$hBM501.2.E45$iG67 2000