Friday, August 14, 2009

Did the Rabbis Believe Their Myths

I just came across a cool essay by Chaim Milikowsky, originally a 1997 lecture but published in a 2005 book, Ancient Fiction (available in its entirety on Google Books), about whether the Rabbis believed their stories. (He says no, but it's more complicated than that.) It's basically a rabbinic version of Paul Veyne's great book.
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  1. Rabbi Jeremy GordonSeptember 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM

    Hi,
    I had a crack at this topic (which I think is actually really important) in an arcticle published in Conservative Judaism.
    It's also on my Shul Web-site
    http://www.newlondon.org.uk/articles/print_article.asp?article=94
    I'ld be grateful for any feedback
    rabbi[at]newlondon.org.uk

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  2. Rabbi Jeremy GordonSeptember 16, 2010 at 11:17 AM

    Sorry, that URL is broken, corrections
    http://www.newlondon.org.uk/articles/?article=94

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