Narrating the Law : A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories.
Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott.
Narrating the Law : A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (248 pages) - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series . - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Privileging Legal Narrative: Resisting Code as the Image of Jewish Law -- Chapter 2. Deconstructing Halakhah and Aggadah -- Chapter 3. A Touch of the Rabbinic Real: Rabbis and Outsiders -- Chapter 4. Social Dynamics of Pedagogy: Rabbis and Students -- Chapter 5. Torah as Cultural Capital: Rabbis and Rabbis -- Chapter 6. Lengthy Bavli Narratives: A New Theory of Reading -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Source Index -- Acknowledgments.
Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative, models a new method of studying Talmudic law, and fills out the picture of the cultural life of the rabbis who contributed to the Talmud.
9780812205947
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.
BM509.N37 -- W56 2011eb
296.1/2066
Narrating the Law : A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (248 pages) - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series . - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Privileging Legal Narrative: Resisting Code as the Image of Jewish Law -- Chapter 2. Deconstructing Halakhah and Aggadah -- Chapter 3. A Touch of the Rabbinic Real: Rabbis and Outsiders -- Chapter 4. Social Dynamics of Pedagogy: Rabbis and Students -- Chapter 5. Torah as Cultural Capital: Rabbis and Rabbis -- Chapter 6. Lengthy Bavli Narratives: A New Theory of Reading -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Source Index -- Acknowledgments.
Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative, models a new method of studying Talmudic law, and fills out the picture of the cultural life of the rabbis who contributed to the Talmud.
9780812205947
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.
BM509.N37 -- W56 2011eb
296.1/2066