Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature
In a few weeks, at least here in the US, the The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature will become available. Although it’s not available yet, I wanted to post about it just in case I forget to post about it when it hits the street. The contributions look very interesting. Here is part of the table of contents and an excerpt can also be found here.
| Part I | The Conditions of Rabbinic Literary Activity |
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| 1. | Rabbinic Authorship as a Collective Enterprise | 17 | |
| MARTIN S. JAFFEE | |||
| 2. | The Orality of Rabbinic Writing | 38 | |
| ELIZABETH SHANKS ALEXANDER | |||
| 3. | Social and Institutional Settings of Rabbinic Literature | 58 | |
| JEFFREY L. RUBENSTEIN | |||
| 4. | The Political Geography of Rabbinic Texts | 75 | |
| SETH SCHWARTZ | |||
| Part II | The Genres of Rabbinic Literary Composition |
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| 5. | Rabbinic Midrash and Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation | 99 | |
| STEVEN D. FRAADE | |||
| 6. | The Judaean Legal Tradition and the Halakhah of the Mishnah | 121 | |
| SHAYE J. D. COHEN | |||
| 7. | Roman Law and Rabbinic Legal Composition | 144 | |
| CATHERINE HEZSER | |||
| 8. | Middle Persian Culture and Babylonian Sages: Accommodation and Resistance in the Shaping of Rabbinic Legal Tradition | 165 | |
| YAAKOV ELMAN | |||
| 9. | Jewish Visionary Tradition in Rabbinic Literature | 198 | |
| MICHAEL D. SWARTZ | |||
| 10. | The Almost Invisible Presence of the Other: Multilingual Puns in Rabbinic Literature | 222 | |
| GALIT HASAN-ROKEM | |||
| Part III | Hermeneutical Frames for Interpreting Rabbinic Literature |
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| 11. | The Other in Rabbinic Literature | 243 | |
| CHRISTINE HAYES | |||
| 12. | Regulating the Human Body: Rabbinic Legal Discourse and the Making of Jewish Gender | 270 | |
| CHARLOTTE ELISHEVA FONROBERT | |||
| 13. | Rabbinic Historiography and Representations of the Past | 295 | |
| ISAIAH GAFNI | |||
| 14. | Rabbinical Ethical Formation and the Formation of Rabbinic Ethical Compilations | 313 | |
| JONATHAN WYN SCHOFER | |||
| 15. | Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia | 336 | |
| DANIEL BOYARIN |