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Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective - Volume One: Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in the Mishnah, Tractate Abot, and the Tosefta

By Jacob Neusner

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2003
ISBN
90-04-13023-3, 90-04-13034-9, 9789004130234
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1587253 bytes)
Series
The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 14
Pages
352\353
Time added
2015-04-28 16:00:00

Description

This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then takes up the types of Rabbinic narratives and shows the documentary history of each of them, including the authentic narrative, the maxaseh and the mashal

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