The Cambridge companion to the Talmud and rabbinic literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva, Jaffee, Martin S.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:	Cambridge companions to religion.
Subjects:	Talmud > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Rabbinical literature > History and criticism. Jewish law > History > To 1500.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise / Martin S. Jaffee
The orality of rabbinic writing / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Social and institutional settings of rabbinic literature / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
The political geography of rabbinic texts / Seth Schwartz
Rabbinic midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation / Steven D. Fraade
The Judaean legal tradition and the halakhah of the Mishnah / Shaye J.D. Cohen
Roman law and rabbinic legal composition / Catherine Hezser
Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages : accommodation and resistance in the shaping of rabbinic legal tradition / Yaakov Elman
Jewish visionary tradition in rabbinic literature / Michael D. Swartz
An almost invisible presence : multilingual puns in rabbinic literature / Galit Hasan-Rokem
The "other" in rabbinic literature / Christine Hayes
Regulating the human body : rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past / Isaiah Gafni
Rabbinical ethical formation and the formation of rabbinic ethical compilations / Jonathan Wyn Schofer
Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia / Daniel Boyarin.