- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 287 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Stories of the law (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Stories of the law (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language (note)
- English with passages in Hebrew and English translations.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Pt. I. Narrativity in the Mishnah -- Stories, narratives, and narrativity -- A typology of Mishnaic forms -- Mishnaic topography -- The Mishnah in comparative context -- Pt. II. The Mishnaic story -- Transmission, redaction, and rhetoric -- Exempla: who is a rabbi? -- Case stories: repetition and renewal -- Etiological stories: original nightmares -- Conclusion.
- LCCN
- 2011029887
- OCLC
- ssj0000623461
- Author
Simon-Shoshan, Moshe, 1970-
- Title
Stories of the law [electronic resource] : narrative discourse and the construction of authority in the Mishnah / Moshe Simon-Shoshan.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language
English with passages in Hebrew and English translations.
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