Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories - Wimpfheimer, Barry S.; ebrary, Inc. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Talmud -- Criticism, Narrative; Narration in rabbinical literature; Aggada -- History and criticism; Jewish law -- History; Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.; Talmudic academies -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- History; Electronic books