Studies in Rabbinic narrative:

"Rabbinic literature includes hundreds of stories and briefer narrative traditions. These narrative traditions often take the form of biographical anecdotes that recount a deed or event in the life of a rabbi. Modern scholars consider these narratives as didactic fictions-stories used to teach...

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Other Authors: Rubenstein, Jeffrey L. 1964- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Atlanta SBL 2021-
Series:Brown Judaic studies
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Summary:"Rabbinic literature includes hundreds of stories and briefer narrative traditions. These narrative traditions often take the form of biographical anecdotes that recount a deed or event in the life of a rabbi. Modern scholars consider these narratives as didactic fictions-stories used to teach lessons, promote rabbinic values, and grapple with the tensions and conflicts of rabbinic life. Using methods drawn from literary and cultural theory, including feminist, structuralist, Marxist, and psychoanalytic methods, contributors analyze narratives from the Babylonian Talmud, midrash, Mishnah, and other rabbinic compilations to shed light on their meanings, functions and narrative art"

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