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Author:   Steven Fraade
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   147
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.200kg
ISBN:  

9789004201095

ISBN 10:   9004201092
Pages:   628
Publication Date:   10 May 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION/RETROSPECTIVE 1: Introduction: Of Legal Fictions and Narrative Worlds 2: Nomos and Narrative Before Nomos and Narrative II. DEAD SEA SCROLLS 3: Interpretive Authority in the Studying Community at Qumran 4: To Whom It May Concern: MiqsÌ£at MaÊ¿asÌ e Ha-Torah (4QMMT) and Its Addressee(s) 5: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in 4QMMT: The Case of the Blessings and Curses III. COMPARATIVE: DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND RABBINIC LITERATURE 6: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism after Sixty (Plus) Years: Retrospect and Prospect 7: Qumran Yahad and Rabbinic Havurah: A Comparison Revisited 8: Looking for Legal Midrash at Qumran 9: Looking for Narrative Midrash at Qumran 10: Shifting from Priestly to Non-Priestly Legal Authority: A Comparison of the Damascus Document and the Midrash Sifra 11: Deuteronomy and Polity in the Early History of Jewish Interpretation 12: Ancient Jewish Law and Narrative in Comparative Perspective: The Damascus Document and the Mishnah 13: Theory, Practice, and Polemic in Ancient Jewish Calendars 14: The Torah of the King (Deut 17:14-20) in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Law IV. RABBINIC LITERATURE 15: Priests, Kings, and Patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin in its Exegetical and Cultural Settings 16: Navigating the Anomalous: Non-Jews at the Intersection of Early Rabbinic Law and Narrative 17: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in Early Midrashim 18: Rewritten Bible and Rabbinic Midrash as Commentary 19: Rabbinic Midrash and Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation 20: Rabbinic Polysemy and Pluralism Revisited: Between Praxis and Thematization 21: Moses and the Commandments: Can Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric be Disentangled? 22: Hearing and Seeing at Sinai: Interpretive Trajectories 23: The Temple as a Jewish Identity Marker Pre- and Post-70 C.E.: With Particular Attention to the Holy Vessels in Rabbinic Memory and Imagination 24: Local Jewish Leadership in Roman Palestine: The Case of the Parnas in Early Rabbinic Sources in Light of Extra-Rabbinic Evidence V: AFTERWORD/PROSPECTIVE 25: Afterword: Between History and its Redemption Index of Ancient Authors and Sources Index of Modern Authors Subject Index

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As a model expedition into the discursive worlds of ancient texts, the volume should be welcomed by scholars and serious students. Jonathan Henry, Princeton Theological Seminary, in Enoch Seminar Online

As a model expedition into the discursive worlds of ancient texts, the volume should be welcomed by scholars and serious students. Jonathan Henry, Princeton Theological Seminary, in Enoch Seminar Online

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Steven D. Fraade, Ph.D. (1980) in Near Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, is the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at Yale University, in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and the author of From Tradition to Commentary, winner of the 1992 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Scholarship.

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