Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer.

Author/creator Wimpfheimer, Barry S.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
Description239 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesDivinations, rereading late ancient religion
Divinations. ^A532922
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010027771
ISBN9780812242997 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0812242998 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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