Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories

by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242998
• ISBN13: 9780812242997
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"