Legal fiction s studies of law and narrative in the discursive worlds of ancient Jewish sectarians and sages /

Ancient Jewish writings combine interpretive narratives of Israel's 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 sectari...

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Main Author: Fraade, Steven D.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 147.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004222748.

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Call Number: BM520.52 .F73 2011

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Chapter One. Introduction: Of Legal Fictions And Narrative Worlds /
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  • Chapter Two. Nomos And Narrative Before "Nomos And Narrative" /
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  • Chapter Three. Interpretive Authority In The Studying Community At Qumran /
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  • Chapter Four. To Whom It May Concern: Miqṣat Ma'aśê Ha-Torah (4Qmmt) And Its Addressee(s) /
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  • Chapter Five. Rhetoric And Hermeneutics In Miqṣat Ma'aśê Ha-Torah (4Qmmt): The Case Of The Blessings And Curses /
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  • Chapter Six. The Dead Sea Scrolls And Rabbinic Judaism After Sixty (Plus) Years: Retrospect And Prospect /
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  • Chapter Seven. Qumran Yaḥad and Rabbinic Ḥavurah: A Comparison Reconsidered /
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  • Chapter Eight. Looking For Legal Midrash At Qumran /
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  • Chapter Nine. Looking For Narrative Midrash At Qumran /
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  • Chapter Ten. Shifting From Priestly To Non-Priestly Legal Authority: A Comparison Of The Damascus Document And The Midrash Sifra /
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  • Chapter Eleven. Deuteronomy And Polity In The Early History Of Jewish Interpretation /
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  • Chapter Twelve. Ancient Jewish Law And Narrative In Comparative Perspective: The Damascus Document And The Mishnah /
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  • Chapter Thirteen. Theory, Practice, And Polemic In Ancient Jewish Calendars /
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  • Chapter Fourteen. "The Torah Of The King" (Deut 17:14-20) In The Temple Scroll And Early Rabbinic Law /
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  • Chapter Fifteen. Priests, Kings, And Patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin In Its Exegetical And Cultural Settings /
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  • Chapter Sixteen. Navigating The Anomalous: Non-Jews At The Intersection Of Early Rabbinic Law And Narrative /
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  • Chapter Seventeen. Literary Composition And Oral Performance In Early Midrashim /
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  • Chapter Eighteen. Rewritten Bible And Rabbinic Midrash As Commentary /
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  • Chapter Nineteen. Rabbinic Midrash And Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation /
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  • Chapter Twenty. Rabbinic Polysemy And Pluralism Revisited: Between Praxis And Thematization /
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  • Chapter Twenty-One. Moses And The Commandments: Can Hermeneutics, History, And Rhetoric Be Disentangled? /
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  • Chapter Twenty-Two. Hearing And Seeing At Sinai: Interpretive Trajectories /
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  • Chapter Twenty-Three. 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 /
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  • Chapter Twenty-Four. Local Jewish Leadership In Roman Palestine: The Case Of The Parnas In Early Rabbinic Sources In Light Of Extra-Rabbinic Evidence /
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  • Chapter Twenty-Five. Afterword: Between History And Its Redemption /
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  • Index Of Ancient Authors And Sources /
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  • Index Of Modern Authors /
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  • Subject Index /
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