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Legal fictions : studies of law and narrative in the discursive worlds of ancient Jewish sectarians and sages /

Ancient Jewish writings combine interpretive narratives of Israels sacred history with legal prescriptions for a divinely ordered way of life. Two ancient Jewish societies have left us extensive textual corpora preserving interpenetrating legal and narrative interpretive teachings: the sectarian com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fraade, Steven D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 147.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : of legal fictions and narrative worlds
  • Nomos and narrative before "nomos and narrative"
  • Interpretive authority in the studying community at Qumran
  • To whom it may concern : miqsat maase
  • Rhetoric and hermeneutics in miqsat maase
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic Judaism after sixty (plus)
  • Qumran yahad and rabbinic havurah : a comparison revisited
  • Looking for legal midrash at Qumran
  • Looking for narrative midrash at Qumran
  • Shifting from priestly to non-priestly legal authority : a comparison of the Damascus document and the midrash sifra
  • Deuteronomy and polity in the early history of Jewish interpretation
  • Ancient Jewish law and narrative in comparative perspective : the Damascus document and the Mishnah
  • Theory, practice, and polemic in ancient Jewish calendars
  • "The torah of the king" (deut 17:14-20) in the temple scroll and early rabbinic law
  • Priests, kings, and patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin in its exegetical and cultural settings
  • Navigating the anomalous: non-Jews at the intersection of early rabbinic law and narrative
  • Literary composition and oral performance in early midrashim
  • Rewritten Bible and rabbinic midrash as commentary
  • Rabbinic midrash and ancient jewish biblical interpretation
  • Rabbinic polysemy and pluralism revisited: between praxis and thematization
  • Moses and the commandments: can hermeneutics, history, and rhetoric be disentangled?
  • Hearing and seeing at Sinai: interpretive trajectories
  • The temple as a marker of Jewish identity before and after 70 c.e. : the role of the holy vessels in rabbinic memory and imagination
  • Local Jewish leadership in Roman Palestine : the case of the parnas in early rabbinic sources in light of extra-rabbinic evidence
  • Afterword : between history and its redemption.