Authors: Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Bertrand Badie
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
This is a detailed study of two intriguing figures in early rabbinic literature, shown to be products of the literary creativity of rabbinic storytellers who convey a particular ideology through the image of the rabbinic heroes they portray: Elisha ben Abuya, considered as apostate and sinner, and Eleazar ben Arach,