Biblical Narrative And The Formation Of Rabbinic Law

Author : Jane L. Kanarek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139952625
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law written by Jane L. Kanarek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new framework for understanding the relationship between biblical narrative and rabbinic law. Drawing on legal theory and models of rabbinic exegesis, Jane L. Kanarek argues for the centrality of biblical narrative in the formation of rabbinic law. Through close readings of selected Talmudic and midrashic texts, Kanarek demonstrates that rabbinic legal readings of narrative scripture are best understood through the framework of a referential exegetical web. She shows that law should be viewed as both prescriptive of normative behavior and as a meaning-making enterprise. By explicating the hermeneutical processes through which biblical narratives become resources for legal norms, this book transforms our understanding of the relationship of law and narrative as well as the ways in which scripture becomes a rabbinic document that conveys legal authority and meaning.

Author : Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139957953
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law written by Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new framework for understanding the relationship between biblical narrative and rabbinic law. Drawing on legal theory and models of rabbinic exegesis, Jane L. Kanarek argues for the centrality of biblical narrative in the formation of rabbinic law. Through close readings of selected Talmudic and midrashic texts, Kanarek demonstrates that rabbinic legal readings of narrative scripture are best understood through the framework of a referential exegetical web. She shows that law should be viewed as both prescriptive of normative behavior and as a meaning-making enterprise. By explicating the hermeneutical processes through which biblical narratives become resources for legal norms, this book transforms our understanding of the relationship of law and narrative as well as the ways in which scripture becomes a rabbinic document that conveys legal authority and meaning.

Author : Chaya T. Halberstam
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253003989
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature written by Chaya T. Halberstam and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can humans ever attain the knowledge required to administer and implement divine law and render perfect justice in this world? Contrary to the belief that religious law is infallible, Chaya T. Halberstam shows that early rabbinic jurisprudence is characterized by fundamental uncertainty. She argues that while the Hebrew Bible created a sense of confidence and transparency before the law, the rabbis complicated the paths to knowledge and undermined the stability of personal status and ownership, and notions of guilt or innocence. Examining the facts of legal judgments through midrashic discussions of the law and evidence, Halberstam discovers that rabbinic understandings of the law were riddled with doubt and challenged the possibility of true justice. This book thoroughly engages law, narrative, and theology to explicate rabbinic legal authority and its limits.

Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674293703
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is the Mishnah? written by Shaye J. D. Cohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—all of rabbinic law, from ancient to modern times, is based on the Talmud, and the Talmud, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. But the Mishnah is also an elusive document; its sources and setting are obscure, as are its genre and purpose. In January 2021 the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies and the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law of the Harvard Law School co-sponsored a conference devoted to the simple yet complicated question: “What is the Mishnah?” Leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel assessed the state of the art in Mishnah studies; and the papers delivered at that conference form the basis of this collection. Learned yet accessible, What Is the Mishnah? gives readers a clear sense of current and future direction of Mishnah studies.

Author : Rebecca Lynn Winer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814346324
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present written by Rebecca Lynn Winer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.

Author : Steven Fraade
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420184X
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Fictions written by Steven Fraade and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the ancient writings of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early rabbinic Judaism, this book comprises studies that explore the intersections of scriptural interpretation, narrative fiction, and legal rhetoric. It proposes and models methods of a non-reductive historiography for each of these communities and for both of them in comparison.

Author : Christine Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036151
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law written by Christine Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

Author : Elisheva Baumgarten
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297520
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages written by Elisheva Baumgarten and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Elisheva Baumgarten examines how medieval Jewish engagement with the Bible--especially in the tellings, retellings, and illustrations of stories of women--offers a window onto aspects of the daily lives and cultural mentalités of Ashkenazic Jews in the High Middle Ages.

Author : J. Crane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137021098
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives and Jewish Bioethics written by J. Crane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.

Author : Jordan D. Rosenblum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108107664
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World written by Jordan D. Rosenblum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food practices. In particular he focuses on how ancient Jews defended the kosher laws, or kashrut, and how ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians critiqued these practices. As the kosher laws are first encountered in the Hebrew Bible, this study is rooted in ancient biblical interpretation. It explores how commentators in antiquity understood, applied, altered, innovated upon, and contemporized biblical dietary regulations. He shows that these differing interpretations do not exist within a vacuum; rather, they are informed by a variety of motives, including theological, moral, political, social, and financial considerations. In analyzing these ancient conversations about culture and cuisine, he dissects three rhetorical strategies deployed when justifying various interpretations of ancient Jewish dietary regulations: reason, revelation, and allegory. Finally, Rosenblum reflects upon wider, contemporary debates about food ethics.