The Religious Uses of History
Judaism in First-Century A.D. Palestine and Third-Century Babylonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7799124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Neusner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153 |
| Publication date | 1966-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2504512 |
| OpenAlex | W2330922903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Biblical theology, which held that history should be studied as the revelation of God's will from creation, through Sinai, to a final redemption, resulted in the foundations of a genuinely historical enterprise. But Judaism in later times produced no works of the specificity, breadth of conception, and felicity of a Book of Samuel, or Kings, or Deuteronomy. It seems rather to have lost serious interest in strictly historical questions, laying stress instead on law, scriptural exegesis, mysticism, and similar non-historical matters. Maimonides, for example, was bored by post-biblical history, in his productive life contributed nothing to historical literature, and wrote
Ancient history · Archaeology · Judaism · Mandatory Palestine · Palestine · Ancient Near East History · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2006 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |