[Avodah] history

[Rich, Joel]

> This whole attitude is so a-historical as to be disturbing

And Tosfos about Pinchas, Eliyahu, and Beis Hakvaros?

We have discussed before that chazal have a tendency to identify
together people who seem to have nothing in common.
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IIRC we also discussed the universal conservation of personalities
theory (that chazal had some message in these identifications)

KT
Joel Rich
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