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Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories

Title
Narrating the law [electronic resource] : a poetics of talmudic legal stories / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer.
Author
Wimpfheimer, Barry S.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

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Description
1 online resource (239 p.)
Series Statement
Divinations, rereading late ancient religion
Uniform Title
  • Narrating the law (Online)
  • Divinations.
Alternative Title
Narrating the law (Online)
Subject
  • Talmud > Criticism, Narrative
  • Narration in rabbinical literature
  • Aggada > History and criticism
  • Jewish law > History
  • Judaism > History > Talmudic period, 10-425
  • Talmudic academies > Iraq > Babylonia > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Privileging legal narrative: resisting code as the image of Jewish law -- Deconstructing halakhah and aggadah -- A touch of the rabbinic real: rabbis and outsiders -- Social dynamics of pedagogy: rabbis and students -- Torah as cultural capital: rabbis and rabbis -- Lengthy Bavli narratives: a new theory of reading.
LCCN
2010027771
OCLC
ssj0000631081
Author
Wimpfheimer, Barry S.
Title
Narrating the law [electronic resource] : a poetics of talmudic legal stories / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
Divinations, rereading late ancient religion
Divinations.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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