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Author Fraade, Steven D.

Title Legal fictions : studies of law and narrative in the discursive worlds of ancient Jewish sectarians and sages / by Steven D. Fraade.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 627 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 1384-2161 ; v. 147
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 147.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction : of legal fictions and narrative worlds -- Nomos and narrative before "nomos and narrative" -- Interpretive authority in the studying community at Qumran -- To whom it may concern : miqsat maase -- Rhetoric and hermeneutics in miqsat maase -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic Judaism after sixty (plus) -- Qumran yahad and rabbinic havurah : a comparison revisited -- Looking for legal midrash at Qumran -- Looking for narrative midrash at Qumran -- Shifting from priestly to non-priestly legal authority : a comparison of the Damascus document and the midrash sifra -- Deuteronomy and polity in the early history of Jewish interpretation -- Ancient Jewish law and narrative in comparative perspective : the Damascus document and the Mishnah -- Theory, practice, and polemic in ancient Jewish calendars -- "The torah of the king" (deut 17:14-20) in the temple scroll and early rabbinic law -- Priests, kings, and patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin in its exegetical and cultural settings -- Navigating the anomalous: non-Jews at the intersection of early rabbinic law and narrative -- Literary composition and oral performance in early midrashim -- Rewritten Bible and rabbinic midrash as commentary -- Rabbinic midrash and ancient jewish biblical interpretation -- Rabbinic polysemy and pluralism revisited: between praxis and thematization -- Moses and the commandments: can hermeneutics, history, and rhetoric be disentangled? -- Hearing and seeing at Sinai: interpretive trajectories -- The temple as a marker of Jewish identity before and after 70 c.e. : the role of the holy vessels in rabbinic memory and imagination -- Local Jewish leadership in Roman Palestine : the case of the parnas in early rabbinic sources in light of extra-rabbinic evidence -- Afterword : between history and its redemption.
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Subject Dead Sea scrolls.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Jewish law -- History -- To 1500.
Jewish law.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
Rabbinical literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fraade, Steven D. Legal fictions. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004201095 (DLC) 2010054202 (OCoLC)696603516
ISBN 9789004201842 (electronic book)
900420184X (electronic book)
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9781283161268
9789004201095
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