Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-31
Mått:144 x 222 x 18 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107047815

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Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Jane L. Kanarek is Assistant Professor of Rabbinics at Hebrew College. Her work has been published in AJS Review, Teaching Theology and Religion, the Journal of Jewish Education, and Sh'ma Journal: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. She is on the editorial board of Teaching Theology and Religion and a member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago, her MA from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and her AB from Brown University. She received a Wexner Graduate Fellowship.

Recensioner i media

'This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the rabbis as legal readers of the Bible. Kanarek's masterful and astute analysis of the ways in which the rabbis derived laws from the stories of Genesis lucidly demonstrates the intertwined relationship between law and narrative. She sheds light on how narrative gives meaning and authority to law, and at the same time how law is a meaning-making enterprise.' Carol Bakhos, University of California, Los Angeles

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. He took the knife: the binding of Isaac as ritual resource; 3. The paradigmatic virgin: Rebekah's marriage and exegetical choice; 4. Avoiding the obvious: Joseph's disappearance and the creation of legal meaning; 5. Textual fragmentation and an assembly of ten; 6. Conclusion.