TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fonrobert,Charlotte Elisheva
AU  - Jaffee,Martin S.
TI  - The Cambridge companion to the Talmud and rabbinic literature
T2  - Cambridge companions to religion
SN  - 0521843901 (hardback)
AV  - BM 504 .C36 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Talmud
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jewish law
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-392) and indexes; Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise / Martin S. Jaffee -- The orality of rabbinic writing / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- Social and institutional settings of rabbinic literature / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- The political geography of rabbinic texts / Seth Schwartz -- Rabbinic midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation / Steven D. Fraade -- The Judaean legal tradition and the halakhah of the Mishnah / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Roman law and rabbinic legal composition / Catherine Hezser -- Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages : accommodation and resistance in the shaping of rabbinic legal tradition / Yaakov Elman -- Jewish visionary tradition in rabbinic literature / Michael D. Swartz -- An almost invisible presence : multilingual puns in rabbinic literature / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- The "other" in rabbinic literature / Christine Hayes -- Regulating the human body : rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past / Isaiah Gafni -- Rabbinical ethical formation and the formation of rabbinic ethical compilations / Jonathan Wyn Schofer -- Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia / Daniel Boyarin
N2  - This companion guides beginning students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical-interpretive and culture-critical issues that contemporary scholars use when studying the rabbinic texts of late antiquity
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UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2006022821-d.html
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