{"product_id":"narrating-the-law-a-poetics-of-talmudic-legal-stories-9780812242997","title":"Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNarrating the Law\u003c\/i\u003e Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for studying talmudic law in particular. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorks of law, including the Talmud, are animated by a desire to create clear usable precedent. This animating impulse toward clarity is generally absent in narratives, the form of which is better able to capture the subtleties of lived life. Wimpfheimer proposes to make these different forms compatible by constructing a narrative-based law that considers law as one of several languages, along with politics, ethics, psychology, and others that together compose culture. A narrative-based law is capable of recognizing the limitations of theoretical statutes and the degree to which other cultural languages interact with legal discourse, complicating any attempts to actualize a hypothetical set of rules. This way of considering law strongly resists the divide in traditional Jewish learning between legal literature (Halakhah) and nonlegal literature (Aggadah) by suggesting the possibility of a discourse broad enough to capture both. \u003ci\u003eNarrating the Law\u003c\/i\u003e activates this mode of reading by looking at the Talmud's legal stories, a set of texts that sits uncomfortably on the divide between Halakhah and Aggadah. After noticing that such stories invite an expansive definition of law that includes other cultural voices, \u003ci\u003eNarrating the Law\u003c\/i\u003e also mines the stories for the rich descriptions of rabbinic culture that they encapsulate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Scott Wimpfheimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812242997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarry Scott Wimpfheimer teaches religion and law at Northwestern University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40412467855475,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":104.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_30e7f6d4-06e4-416d-9616-a2b2a196d0bf.jpg?v=1662127095","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/narrating-the-law-a-poetics-of-talmudic-legal-stories-9780812242997","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}