Narrating the law [electronic resource] : a poetics of talmudic legal stories / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer.

By: Wimpfheimer, Barry SContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: DivinationsPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011Description: 239 pISBN: 9780812205947 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Talmud -- Criticism, Narrative | Narration in rabbinical literature | Aggada -- History and criticism | Jewish law -- History | Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425 | Talmudic academies -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 296.1/2066 LOC classification: BM509.N37 | W56 2011Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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