Rabbinic narrative
Subtitle: a documentary perspective
By: by Jacob Neusner.
Series: The Brill reference library of Judaism -- v. 14-17
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Mishnah -- Criticism, Narrative; Narration in rabbinical literature; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism; Midrash -- History and criticism; Parables in rabbinical literature
Other titles: Agadah
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Forms, types, and distribution of narratives in the Mishnah, Tractate Abot, and the Tosefta; title: v. 2. Forms, types, and distribution of narratives in Sifra, Sifré to Numbers, and Sifré to Deuteronomy; title: v. 3. Forms, types, and distribution of narratives in Song of songs rabbah and Lamentations rabbah and a reprise of Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan Text A; title: v. 4. The precedent and the parable in diachronic view.