Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wimpfheimer, Barry S.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
Series:Divinations.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.