Gerhardsson's Theory

Gerhardsson's Theory

Gerhardsson contended that memorisation was an significant characteristic of learning in the very vintage world and was exceptionally significant in Jewish learning according rabbinic sources. Gerhardsson's thesis came under critical condemnation encompassing the unchanging condemnation that he was at fault of projecting post-135 AD outlooks on custom back in to the pre-70 AD time span, esp. in the condemnations of Morton Smith and Jacob Neusner. And yet Gerhardsson not ever asserted that the rabbinic procedures into could be traced back to before 70 AD, he habitually differentiated components about learning from the Tannaitic and Amoraic time span, and considered ...