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Author Wimpfheimer, Barry S.

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

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 239 p.
Series Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
Divinations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Talmud -- Criticism, Narrative.
Narration in rabbinical literature.
Aggada -- History and criticism.
Jewish law -- History.
Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
Talmudic academies -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780812242997 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812242998 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812205947 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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