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Narrating the Law : A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205947
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narrating the LawDDC classification:
  • 296.1/2066
LOC classification:
  • BM509.N37 -- W56 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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