TY - BOOK AU - Fine,Steven AU - Fonrobert,Charlotte Elisheva AU - Gray,Alyssa AU - Irshai,Oded AU - Jaffee,Martin S. AU - Kraus,Matthew A. AU - Newman,Hillel I. AU - Rubenstein,Jeffrey L. TI - How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World? T2 - Judaism in Context SN - 9781593332143 U1 - 290 PY - 2006///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THE “ORALITY” OF RABBINIC WRITING MAKE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF RABBINIC WRITINGS? --; ABAVLI SUGYA AND ITS TWO YERUSHALMI PARALLELS: ISSUES OF LITERARY RELATIONSHIP AND REDACTION --; THE SEMIOTICS OF THE SEXED BODY IN EARLY HALAKHIC DISCOURSE --; CLOSING THE CIRCLE: YONAH FRAENKEL, THE TALMUDIC STORY, AND RABBINIC HISTORY --; CONTEXT AND GENRE: ELEMENTS OF A LITERARY APPROACH TO THE RABBINIC NARRATIVE --; EPHRAIM E. URBACH AND THE STUDY OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE IN LATE ANTIQUITY SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS --; ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF RABBINIC LITERATURE: SOME THOUGHTS; restricted access N2 - Through literary, historical, archaeological, and engendered readings, this collection of essays presents a multidisciplinary analysis of rabbinic texts. Such a conversation between diverse scholars illuminates the hermeneutical issues generated by the contemporary study of the Talmud and Midrash UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463211028 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463211028 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463211028/original ER -