Narrating the law a poetics of talmudic legal stories / [electronic resource] :
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer.
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
- 239 p.
- Divinations : rereading late ancient religion .
- Divinations. .
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.
Talmud--Criticism, Narrative.
Narration in rabbinical literature. Aggada--History and criticism. Jewish law--History. Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425. Talmudic academies--History.--Iraq--Babylonia