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Electronic Book

Author

Wimpfheimer, Barry S.

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

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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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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.)