Personalities · 23 · The Hero
Yael Zerubavel
In Recovered Roots, she shows how early Zionists revived memories of statehood, Masada, the Maccabees, Bar Kokhba, that the rabbis had muted.
Each era chooses its memories.
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The biblical scribes, predecessors of the rabbis, already practiced such sublimation.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 369
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