TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wimpfheimer,Barry Scott
TI  - Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories
T2  - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series
SN  - 9780812205947
AV  - BM509.N37 -- W56 2011eb 
U1  - 296.1/2066 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Talmud-Criticism, Narrative
KW  - Narration in rabbinical literature
KW  - Aggada-History and criticism
KW  - Jewish law-History
KW  - Judaism-History-Talmudic period, 10-425
KW  - Talmudic academies-Iraq-Babylonia-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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