LEADER 04231nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910822371603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89766-0 010 $a0-8122-0594-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205947 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064749 035 $a(OCoLC)794700757 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642734 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631081 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11370448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631081 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10590749 035 $a(PQKB)11357520 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17887 035 $a(DE-B1597)449427 035 $a(OCoLC)979881068 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205947 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441982 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642734 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421016 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441982 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064749 100 $a20100629d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarrating the law $ea poetics of talmudic legal stories /$fBarry Scott Wimpfheimer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aDivinations : rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4299-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and indexes. 327 $aPrivileging 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. 330 $aIn Narrating the Law Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for studying talmudic law in particular.Works of law, including the Talmud, are animated by a desire to create clear usable precedent. This animating impulse toward clarity is generally absent in narratives, the form of which is better able to capture the subtleties of lived life. Wimpfheimer proposes to make these different forms compatible by constructing a narrative-based law that considers law as one of several "languages," along with politics, ethics, psychology, and others that together compose culture. A narrative-based law is capable of recognizing the limitations of theoretical statutes and the degree to which other cultural languages interact with legal discourse, complicating any attempts to actualize a hypothetical set of rules. This way of considering law strongly resists the divide in traditional Jewish learning between legal literature (Halakhah) and nonlegal literature (Aggadah) by suggesting the possibility of a discourse broad enough to capture both. Narrating the Law activates this mode of reading by looking at the Talmud's legal stories, a set of texts that sits uncomfortably on the divide between Halakhah and Aggadah. After noticing that such stories invite an expansive definition of law that includes other cultural voices, Narrating the Law also mines the stories for the rich descriptions of rabbinic culture that they encapsulate. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aNarration in rabbinical literature 606 $aAggada$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJewish law$xHistory 606 $aJudaism$xHistory$yTalmudic period, 10-425 606 $aTalmudic academies$zIraq$zBabylonia$xHistory 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aReligion. 615 0$aNarration in rabbinical literature. 615 0$aAggada$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJewish law$xHistory. 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 615 0$aTalmudic academies$xHistory. 676 $a296.1/2066 700 $aWimpfheimer$b Barry S$01686608 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822371603321 996 $aNarrating the law$94059544 997 $aUNINA