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Stories of the law : narrative discourse and the construction of authority in the Mishnah / Moshe Simon-Shoshan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon-Shoshan, Moshe, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Narration in rabbinical literature.
- Mishnah--Criticism, Narrative.
- Mishnah.
- Jewish law in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 287 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- Enlish with passages in Hebrew and English translations.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Pt. I. Narrativity in the Mishnah
- Stories, narratives, and narrativity
- A typology of Mishnaic forms
- Mishnaic topography
- The Mishnah in comparative context
- Pt. II. The Mishnaic story
- Transmission, redaction, and rhetoric
- Exempla: who is a rabbi?
- Case stories: repetition and renewal
- Etiological stories: original nightmares
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199773732
- 0199773734
- OCLC:
- 741751398
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