Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 2, Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 2

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-- Vol. 1. Introduction / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- Hornets Came And Consumed Her : Gender, Animality, And Hunger In Bavli Sanhedrin's Stories Of Sodom And Noah / Julia Watts Belser -- Bio-power, Sabbath Burdens, And The Badly Behaved Donkey In Bavli Tractate Shabbat / Beth Berkowitz -- Problematizing Charity : Rabbinic Charity Narrative Cycle In Bavli Ketubbot 67b-68a / Dov Kohane -- The Righteous Women Of Bavli Sotah : On Reading Talmudic Narrative In The Context Of A Tractate / Jane L. Kanarek -- Mishnah As Story : Aspects Of The Reception Of The Mishnah In Midrash And Piyyut / Tavi Novick -- The Iridescence Of Scripture : Inner-talmudic Interpretation And Palestinian Midrash / James Adam Redfield -- The All-night Seder In Bene Beraq : A Literary And Cultural History / Jay Rovner -- The Story-cycles Of The Bavli : Part 1 / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- The Deposition Of Rabban Gamaliel : Talmud And The Political Unconscious / Zvi Septimus -- Jews, Gentiles And Gehinnom In Rabbinic Literature / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer -- Conflict Over The Essential Nature Of Law: Bava Ben Buta's Activism In Tosefta Hagigah / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer -- Vol. 2. -- Introduction / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- The Opposite Of Aggadah / Mira Beth Watson -- The Tragedy Of Heruta, The Madonna Who Became A Whore / Gila Fine -- Yom Kippur The Nightmare: Redactional Hand In Bavli Yoma 76b-77a / Aviva Richman -- The Death Of The Redactor: The Haunting Tales Of Rabbi Judah The Patriarch And His Ghostly Return / Avi M. Miller -- Flat Rabbis: A Narratological Lens For Rabbinic Legal Traditions / Matthew Goldstone -- The Literary Study Of Talmudic Adjudication Narratives / Lynn Kaye -- Eschatological Paradox In Bavli Sanhedrin / Jenny R. Labendz -- Cutting A Peace: A Holistic Analysis Of The Qetiah Bar Shalom Story / Shlomo Zuckier -- Incoherence And Antinarrative In Talmudic Case Reports / Chaya T. Halberstam -- The Story-cycle Of The Angel Of Death In Mo'ed Qatan 28a / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- The Story Of Rav Amram Hasida (bavli Qiddushin 81a): Authenticity, The Unconscious, And Self-disclosure: Can We Read The Talmudic Story Through These Modern Terms? / Admiel Kosman. Edited By Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.