04258nam 2200781 a 450 991078858470332120200520144314.01-283-89766-00-8122-0594-410.9783/9780812205947(CKB)3240000000064749(OCoLC)794700757(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642734(SSID)ssj0000631081(PQKBManifestationID)11370448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631081(PQKBWorkID)10590749(PQKB)11357520(MdBmJHUP)muse17887(DE-B1597)449427(OCoLC)979881068(DE-B1597)9780812205947(Au-PeEL)EBL3441982(CaPaEBR)ebr10642734(CaONFJC)MIL421016(MiAaPQ)EBC3441982(EXLCZ)99324000000006474920100629d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNarrating the law[electronic resource] a poetics of talmudic legal stories /Barry Scott Wimpfheimer1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20111 online resource (248 p.) Divinations : rereading late ancient religionBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4299-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes.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.In Narrating the Law Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for studying talmudic law in particular.Works of law, including the Talmud, are animated by a desire to create clear usable precedent. This animating impulse toward clarity is generally absent in narratives, the form of which is better able to capture the subtleties of lived life. Wimpfheimer proposes to make these different forms compatible by constructing a narrative-based law that considers law as one of several "languages," along with politics, ethics, psychology, and others that together compose culture. A narrative-based law is capable of recognizing the limitations of theoretical statutes and the degree to which other cultural languages interact with legal discourse, complicating any attempts to actualize a hypothetical set of rules. This way of considering law strongly resists the divide in traditional Jewish learning between legal literature (Halakhah) and nonlegal literature (Aggadah) by suggesting the possibility of a discourse broad enough to capture both. Narrating the Law activates this mode of reading by looking at the Talmud's legal stories, a set of texts that sits uncomfortably on the divide between Halakhah and Aggadah. After noticing that such stories invite an expansive definition of law that includes other cultural voices, Narrating the Law also mines the stories for the rich descriptions of rabbinic culture that they encapsulate.Divinations.Narration in rabbinical literatureAggadaHistory and criticismJewish lawHistoryJudaismHistoryTalmudic period, 10-425Talmudic academiesIraqBabyloniaHistoryCultural Studies.Jewish Studies.Law.Literature.Religion.Narration in rabbinical literature.AggadaHistory and criticism.Jewish lawHistory.JudaismHistoryTalmudic academiesHistory.296.1/2066Wimpfheimer Barry S1467644MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788584703321Narrating the law3678378UNINA