Stories of the law
Subtitle: narrative discourse and the construction of authority in the Mishnah
By: Moshe Simon-Shoshan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199773732
Subjects: Narrative Criticism; Narration in rabbinical literature; Jewish law in literature; Mishnah
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Narrativity in the Mishnah; title: Introduction; title: Stories, narratives and narrativity; title: A typology of Mishnaic forms; title: Mishnaic topography; title: The Mishnah in comparative context; title: Pt. II. The Mishnaic story; title: Transmission, redaction and rhetoric; title: Exempla: who is a rabbi?; title: Case stories: repetition and renewal; title: Etiological stories: original nightmares; title: Conclusion.