Legal fictions
Subtitle: studies of law and narrative in the discursive worlds of ancient Jewish sectarians and sages
By: By Steven D. Fraade
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism -- 147
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 627
ISBN-13: 9789004201095
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Judaism; Jewish law; Dead Sea Scrolls; History and criticism; History
Other titles: Brill e-books.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : of legal fictions and narrative worlds; title: Nomos and narrative before "nomos and narrative"; title: Interpretive authority in the studying community at Qumran; title: To whom it may concern : miqsat maase; title: Rhetoric and hermeneutics in miqsat maase; title: The Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic Judaism after sixty (plus); title: Qumran yahad and rabbinic havurah : a comparison revisited; title: Looking for legal midrash at Qumran; title: Looking for narrative midrash at Qumran; title: Shifting from priestly to non-priestly legal authority : a comparison of the Damascus document and the midrash sifra; title: Deuteronomy and polity in the early history of Jewish interpretation; title: Ancient Jewish law and narrative in comparative perspective : the Damascus document and the Mishnah; title: Theory, practice, and polemic in ancient Jewish calendars; title: "The torah of the king" (deut 17:14-20) in the temple scroll and early rabbinic law; title: Priests, kings, and patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin in its exegetical and cultural settings; title: Navigating the anomalous: non-Jews at the intersection of early rabbinic law and narrative; title: Literary composition and oral performance in early midrashim; title: Rewritten Bible and rabbinic midrash as commentary; title: Rabbinic midrash and ancient jewish biblical interpretation; title: Rabbinic polysemy and pluralism revisited: between praxis and thematization; title: Moses and the commandments: can hermeneutics, history, and rhetoric be disentangled?; title: Hearing and seeing at Sinai: interpretive trajectories; title: The temple as a marker of Jewish identity before and after 70 c.e. : the role of the holy vessels in rabbinic memory and imagination; title: Local Jewish leadership in Roman Palestine : the case of the parnas in early rabbinic sources in light of extra-rabbinic evidence; title: Afterword : between history and its redemption.