How should rabbinic literature be read in the modern world?
By: edited by Matthew Kraus.
Contributors: Kraus, Matthew.
Edition: 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series: Judaism in context -- v. 4
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781593332143
Subjects: Talmud -- Hermeneutics -- Congresses.; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Congresses.; Aggada -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Congresses.; Midrash -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held Oct. 26-27, 2003 at Williams College entitled How Should Late Rabbinic Literature be Read in the Modern World? : Hermeneutical Limits and Possibilities.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What difference does the "orality" of rabbinic writing make for the interpretation of rabbinic writings? / Martin S. Jaffee; title: A Bavli sugya and its two Yerushalmi parallels : issues of literary relationship and redaction / Alyssa Gray; title: The semiotics of the sexed body in early halakhic discourse / Charlotte E. Fonrobert; title: Closing the circle : Yonah Fraenkel, the talmudic story, and rabbinic history / Hillel I. Newman; title: Context and genre : elements of a literary approach to the rabbinic narrative / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein; title: Ephraim E. Urbach and the study of Judeo-Christian dialogue in late antiquity : some preliminary observations / Oded I. Irshai; title: Archaeology and the interpretation of rabbinic literature : some thoughts / Steven Fine.