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Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories
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Title
Narrating the law [electronic resource] : a poetics of talmudic legal stories / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer.
ISBN
9780812242997 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812242998 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812205947 (e-book)
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
Physical Description
239 p.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 15, 2013
Series
Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.
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.
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