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Judaism and Story: The Evidence of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) by Jacob Neusner; Jacob Beusner is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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In this close analysis of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, a sixth-century commentary on the Mishnah-tractate The Fathers (Avot), Jacob Neusner considers the way in which the story, as a distinctive type of narrative, entered the canonical writings of Judaism. The final installment in Neusner's cycle of analyses of the major texts of the Judaic canon, Judaism and Story shows that stories about sages exist in far greater proportion in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan than in any of the
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jacob Neusner; Jacob Beusner
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226576305
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Religion, Judaism, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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