Narrating the Law A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories Barry Scott Wimpfheimer "Well trained in the critical study of rabbinic literature and informed by previous philological scholarship as well as by critical theory, Wimpfheimer provides a model that has the potential to narrow the gap that has divided the two major vectors of rabbinic thinking, Halakhah and Aggadah, law and folklore. His exacting analysis of the literary genre of legal narrative puts this dichotomization into sharp relief."--Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University In Narrating the Law Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a...
Narrating the Law A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories Barry Scott Wimpfheimer "Well trained in the critical study of rabbinic literature and informed ...
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part comment...
