TY - BOOK AU - Wimpfheimer,Barry S. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Narrating the law: a poetics of talmudic legal stories T2 - Divinations : rereading late ancient religion AV - BM509.N37 W56 2011eb U1 - 296.1/2066 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Talmud KW - Criticism, Narrative KW - Narration in rabbinical literature KW - Aggada KW - History and criticism KW - Jewish law KW - History KW - Judaism KW - Talmudic period, 10-425 KW - Talmudic academies KW - Iraq KW - Babylonia KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10642734 ER -