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"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.
Later 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.".
"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.
Thus, 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.
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The sinner and the amnesiac: the rabbinic invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach
2000, Stanford University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references(p. 285-401) and index
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