Stories of the law [electronic resource] : narrative discourse and the construction of authority in the Mishnah / Moshe Simon-Shoshan

Author: Simon-Shoshan, Moshe, 1970-
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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.

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.

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9780199933129 (ebook)
019993312X (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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