Narrating the law

Wimpfheimer, Barry S.

Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories / [electronic resource] : Barry Scott Wimpfheimer. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011. - 239 p. - Divinations : rereading late ancient religion . - Divinations. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.

Privileging legal narrative: resisting code as the image of Jewish law -- Deconstructing halakhah and aggadah -- A touch of the rabbinic real: rabbis and outsiders -- Social dynamics of pedagogy: rabbis and students -- Torah as cultural capital: rabbis and rabbis -- Lengthy Bavli narratives: a new theory of reading.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Talmud--Criticism, Narrative.


Narration in rabbinical literature.
Aggada--History and criticism.
Jewish law--History.
Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.
Talmudic academies--History.--Iraq--Babylonia


Electronic books.

BM509.N37 / W56 2011eb

296.1/2066