An edition of Talmudic Stories (1999)
Talmudic Stories
Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture
By Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publish Date
September 10, 1999
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
eng
Pages
456
Description:
"How should we understand the stories of the Babylonian Talmud? Where do they come from? Why are they in the Talmud? How do they relate to Talmudic law? In Talmudic Stories, Jeffrey Rubenstein deepens our appreciation for the complexity of these texts by drawing attention to the literary aspects and cultural contexts that are essential to understanding their narrative art, meanings, and importance. Focusing on six famous stories of the Babylonian Talmud and discussing many others in relation to these, Rubenstein's analysis illuminates the ways in which the rabbis used narratives to grapple with fundamental tensions of their culture."--BOOK JACKET.