Narrating the law
Subtitle: a poetics of talmudic legal stories
By: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Divinations, rereading late ancient religion; Divinations
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780812242997
Subjects: Talmud; Erzähltechnik; Aggada; Narrative Criticism; Talmudic period; Narration in rabbinical literature; History and criticism; Talmud Bavli; Talmudic academies; Jewish law; Judaism; Halacha; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Privileging legal narrative: resisting code as the image of Jewish law; title: Deconstructing halakhah and aggadah; title: A touch of the rabbinic real: rabbis and outsiders; title: Social dynamics of pedagogy: rabbis and students; title: Torah as cultural capital: rabbis and rabbis; title: Lengthy Bavli narratives: a new theory of reading.