| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface for Nonspecialists in Rabbinic Literature; Notes on Texts, Tr anslations, and Transcriptions; 1. Introduction; PART ONE: NARRATIVITY IN THE MISHNAH; 2. Stories, Narratives, and Narrativity; 3. A Typology of Mishnaic Forms; 4. Mishnaic Topography; 5. The Mishnah in Comparative Context; PART TWO: THE MISHNAIC STORY; 6. Transmission, Redaction, and Rhetoric; 7. Exempla: Who Is a Rabbi?; 8. Case Stories: Repetition and Renewal; 9. Etiological Stories: Original Nightmares; 10. Conclusion; Appendix: List of Stories in the Mishnah; Notes; Bibliography |
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Citation Index: Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and BavliSubject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Simon-Shoshan examines the neglected genre of rabbinic legal stories, arguing that this genre is crucial to understanding both rabbinic jurisprudence and rabbinic story-telling and challenging traditional distinctions between law and literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012) |
| SUBJECT |
Mishnah -- Criticism, Narrative
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Mishnah fast |
| Subject |
Narration in rabbinical literature.
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Jewish law in literature.
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Jewish law in literature
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Narration in rabbinical literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
019993312X |
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9780199933129 |
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1280594241 |
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9781280594243 |
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