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 Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xx)   (144K)
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    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Previous Publications
    • Abbreviations And Transliterations
  • Introduction: Of Legal Fictions And Narrative Worlds (1-16)   (116K)
  • Nomos And Narrative Before “Nomos And Narrative” (17-34)   (112K)
  • Interpretive Authority In The Studying Community At Qumran (35-68)   (153K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Teacher Of Righteousness As Prophetic Interpreter
    • 3. Exegesis And Exile
    • 4. Study Rites Of Passage
    • 5. Ritualized Common Study In The Daily Life Of The Community
    • 6. Study As A Bridge Between Communal Origins And The End Of Time
    • 7. The Performative Power Of Torah Deeds And Discourse
    • 8. Conclusions
  • To Whom It May Concern: Miqṣat Ma‘aśê Ha-Torah (4Qmmt) And Its Addressee(s) (69-92)   (183K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Legal Core (Section B)
    • 3. The Hortatory Conclusion (Section C)
    • 4. The Appended Calendar (Section A)
    • 5. Language
    • 6. Conclusions
  • Rhetoric And Hermeneutics In Miqṣat Ma‘aśê Ha-Torah (4Qmmt): The Case Of The Blessings And Curses (93-106)   (125K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Blessings And Curses In 4QMMT
    • 3. Blessings And Curses In The Temple Scroll
    • 4. Blessings And Curses In The Community Rule
    • 5. Blessings And Curses In The War Scroll
    • 6. Conclusions
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls And Rabbinic Judaism After Sixty (Plus) Years: Retrospect And Prospect (107-124)   (133K)
  • Qumran Yaḥad and Rabbinic Ḥavurah: A Comparison Reconsidered (125-144)   (140K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Saul Lieberman
    • 3. André Dupont-Sommer
    • 4. Chaim Rabin
    • 5. Jacob Neusner
    • 6. Aharon Oppenheimer
    • 7. Moshe Weinfeld
    • 8. Conclusions
  • Looking For Legal Midrash At Qumran (145-168)   (176K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Community’s Self-Description
    • 3. Examples Of Explicit Legal Midrash
    • 4. Conclusions
  • Looking For Narrative Midrash At Qumran (169-192)   (157K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Defining Midrash Aggadah
    • 3. Contrasting Midrash Aggadah To Second Temple Forms Of Narrative Interpretation
    • 4. Example 1: Blessings And Curses Renewed
    • 5. Example 2: Revelation Retold
    • 6. Conclusions
  • Shifting From Priestly To Non-Priestly Legal Authority: A Comparison Of The Damascus Document And The Midrash Sifra (193-210)   (146K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. CD 13.2–7
    • 3. Mishnah Negaʿim 3:1
    • 4. Sifra Tazriʿa Parashat Negaʿim Pereq 1.8–10
    • 5. Conclusions
  • Deuteronomy And Polity In The Early History Of Jewish Interpretation (211-226)   (151K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. First Example: “This Torah”
    • 3. Second Example: Torah Written And Read
    • 4. Third Example: Rituals Of Covenantal Renewal
    • 5. Fourth Example: Judges And Courts
    • 6. Conclusions
  • Ancient Jewish Law And Narrative In Comparative Perspective: The Damascus Document And The Mishnah (227-254)   (173K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Beginning And End
    • 3. Intermediary Mixes And Transitions
    • 4. A Legal-Historical Case
    • 5. Conclusions I
    • 6. Comparing The Damascus Document To The Mishnah
    • 7. Conclusions II
  • Theory, Practice, And Polemic In Ancient Jewish Calendars (255-284)   (163K)
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    • 1. The Problem
    • 2. Scriptural Foundations
    • 3. Second Temple Reflections And Contentions
    • 4. Dating Shavu‘Ot
    • 5. The Dead Sea Scrolls
    • 6. An Early Rabbinic Controversy
    • Conclusions
  • “The Torah Of The King” (Deut 17:14–20) In The Temple Scroll And Early Rabbinic Law (285-320)   (201K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Biblical Law And Narrative
    • 3. The Temple Scroll
    • 4. The Mishnah
    • 5. The Tosefta
    • 6. The Sifre To Deuteronomy
    • 7. Conclusions
  • Priests, Kings, And Patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin In Its Exegetical And Cultural Settings (321-344)   (156K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Mishnah Sanhedrin 2
    • 3. Tosefta Sanhedrin 4
    • 4. Sifre Deuteronomy 156–62
    • 5. Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 2
    • 6. Conclusions
  • Navigating The Anomalous: Non-Jews At The Intersection Of Early Rabbinic Law And Narrative (345-364)   (142K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Ruling And Crossing Categorical Lines: Mishnah And Tosefta
    • 3. Reconfiguring Scriptural Rules: Midrash Halakhah
    • 4. Reconfiguring Scriptural Narratives: Midrash Aggadah
    • 5. Interlacing Rabbinic Rules And Narratives With Scripture: Palestinian Talmud
    • 6. Conclusions
  • Literary Composition And Oral Performance In Early Midrashim (365-380)   (126K)
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    • 1. Either Oral/Early/Popular Or Literary/Late/Elite
    • 2. Early Midrashic Expressions Of A Two-Fold, Written/ Oral Revelation And Their Historical Significance
    • 3. The Myth Of Oral Torah As Performatively Actualized in The Rhetorical Language And Structures Of Its Own Textualization
  • Rewritten Bible And Rabbinic Midrash As Commentary (381-398)   (176K)
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    • Texts
  • Rabbinic Midrash And Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation (399-426)   (162K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Exegetical Traditions And Contents
    • 3. Exegetical Form And Function
    • 4. A Case In Point: Reuben And Bilhah
    • 5. Conclusion
  • Rabbinic Polysemy And Pluralism Revisited: Between Praxis And Thematization (427-476)   (244K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Some Arguments And Countertexts
    • 3. Conclusions: The Methodological Crux
  • Moses And The Commandments: Can Hermeneutics, History, And Rhetoric Be Disentangled? (477-500)   (159K)
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    • 1. The Book Of Moses
    • 2. The Mekiltas
    • 3. Related Tannaitic Texts
    • 4. Moses Takes The Halakhic Lead (With God’s Approval)
    • 5. Qoraḥ’s Rebellion
    • 6. Three Explanatory Strategies
  • Hearing And Seeing At Sinai: Interpretive Trajectories (501-522)   (182K)
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    • 1. Introduction: The Scriptural Backdrop
    • 2. Hearing And Seeing In Early Rabbinic And Philonic Interpretations Of Sinai
    • 3. Revelatory Seeing And The Practice Of Rabbinic Midrash
    • 4. Conclusions
  • The Temple As A Marker Of Jewish Identity Before And After 70 C.E.: The Role Of The Holy Vessels In Rabbinic Memory And Imagination (523-554)   (211K)
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    • The Temple And Its Holy Vessels In Late Second Temple Times
    • A Late Second Temple Narrative Based On Later Rabbinic Sources
    • An Early Christian Piece Of The Puzzle
    • Contexts And Conclusions
  • Local Jewish Leadership In Roman Palestine: The Case Of The Parnas In Early Rabbinic Sources In Light Of Extra-Rabbinic Evidence (555-576)   (189K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Term פרנס /Προνοητής
    • 3. The Term פרנס As Denoting An “Appointed” Communal Functionary
    • 4. The Term פרנס As Denoting An Administrator Of A Private Estate
    • 5. The Term פרנס As Denoting A National Leader
    • 6. The Jewish Epigraphic Evidence For פרנ
    • 7. Conclusions
  • Afterword: Between History And Its Redemption (577-582)   (56K)
  • Index Of Ancient Authors And Sources (583-613)   (116K)
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    • Hebrew Bible
    • Ancient Bible Versions And Translations
    • Apocrypha
    • Second Temple Literature
    • Qumran Literature
    • New Testament
    • Philo Of Alexandria
    • Josephus
    • Greek And Latin Authors
    • Rabbinic Literature: Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud, And Minor Tractates
    • Rabbinic Literature: Other Rabbinical Works
    • Medieval Jewish Literature
  • Index Of Modern Authors (614-621)   (48K)
  • Subject Index (622-628)   (68K)