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Hardcover Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories Book

ISBN: 0812242998

ISBN13: 9780812242997

Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories

(Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series)

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...

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