Narrating the law: a poetics of talmudic legal stories

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 t...

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Main Author: Wimpfheimer, Barry S. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Philadelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Press c2011
In:Year: 2011
Reviews:[Rezension von: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Narrating the law. A poetics of talmudic legal stories] (2013) (Fraade, Steven D., 1949 -)
Greenblatt and the Blatt: New Perspectives on the Nature and Reception of the Bavli (2013) (Novick, Tzvi, 1976 -)
Edition:1. ed.
Series/Journal:Divinations - rereading late ancient religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Talmud / Poetics / Narrative technique
Further subjects:B Talmud Criticism, Narrative
B Jewish law History
B Aggada History and criticism
B Talmud Criticism, Narrative
B Judaism History Talmudic period, 10-425
B Aggada History and criticism
B Talmudic academies Iraq Babylonia History
B Narration in rabbinical literature
B Jewish Law History
B Talmudic academies (Iraq) (Babylonia) History
B Judaism History Talmudic period, 10-425
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Summary: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
Item Description:Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes
ISBN:0812242998