Narrating the Law A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories - Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
Biographical note: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer teaches religion and law at Northwestern University
Main description: Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative, models a new method of studying Talmudic law, and fills out the picture of the cultural life of the rabbis who contributed to the Talmud