The Cambridge companion to the Talmud and rabbinic literature
By: edited by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Martin S. Jaffee.
Contributors: Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva.; Jaffee, Martin S.
Series: Cambridge companions to religion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780521843904; 9780521605083
Subjects: Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.; Jewish law -- History -- To 1500.
Other titles: Companion to the Talmud and rabbinic literature; Talmud and rabbinic literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-392) and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise / Martin S. Jaffee; value: The orality of rabbinic writing / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander; value: Social and institutional settings of rabbinic literature / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein; value: The political geography of rabbinic texts / Seth Schwartz; value: Rabbinic midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation / Steven D. Fraade; value: The Judaean legal tradition and the halakhah of the Mishnah / Shaye J.D. Cohen; value: Roman law and rabbinic legal composition / Catherine Hezser; value: Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages : accommodation and resistance in the shaping of rabbinic legal tradition / Yaakov Elman; value: Jewish visionary tradition in rabbinic literature / Michael D. Swartz; value: An almost invisible presence : multilingual puns in rabbinic literature / Galit Hasan-Rokem; value: The "other" in rabbinic literature / Christine Hayes; value: Regulating the human body : rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert; value: Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past / Isaiah Gafni; value: Rabbinical ethical formation and the formation of rabbinic ethical compilations / Jonathan Wyn Schofer; value: Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia / Daniel Boyarin.