Probably the footnotes to Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews would be a good
place to look. I think there is pre- (or at least non-) rabbinic evidence.
Bob Kraft
> just reread Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms. at one point Menocchio
> speaks of Abraham as having smashed the idols. this, as far as i know, is
> a rabbinic midrash. had it been adopted by xn exegetes in the middle ages?
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> r
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> Richard Landes
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