Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812205947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Talmud-Criticism, Narrative.<br/>Narration in rabbinical literature.<br/>Aggada-History and criticism.<br/>Jewish law-History.<br/>Judaism-History-Talmudic period, 10-425.<br/>Talmudic academies-Iraq-Babylonia-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM509.N37 -- W56 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.1/2066