Search Results - "Law"

Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories / by Wimpfheimer, Barry S.

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.…”
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The legal methodology of late Nehardean sages in Sasanian Babylonia by Cohen, Barak S.

Subjects: “…Jewish law Methodology.…”
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Brothers estranged heresy, Christianity, and Jewish identity in late antiquity / by Schremer, Adiel

Table of Contents: “…: destruction, defeat, and identity crisis -- Conceptualizing minut : the denial of God and the renunciation of his people -- Laws of minim -- Becoming minut : labeling the early Christians as minim -- Christian belief and rabbinic faith -- Significant brothers -- Conclusion: A different perspective.…”
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Redefining first-century Jewish and Christian identities essays in honor of Ed Parish Sanders /

Table of Contents: “…Hill -- A controversial Jew and his conflicting convictions : Paul, the law, and the Jewish people twenty years after / Heikki Räisänen -- What is "real participation in Christ"? …”
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