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Stories of the law : narrative discourse and the construction of authority in the Mishnah
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Title
Stories of the law : narrative discourse and the construction of authority in the Mishnah / Moshe Simon-Shoshan.
ISBN
9780199773732 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0199773734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xv, 287 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes
Enlish with passages in Hebrew and English translations.
Format
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Language
English; Hebrew
Added to Catalog
April 25, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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