Studies in Rabbinic Narratives Volume 2

<p>This essay collection contains studies of rabbinic narratives found in the Mishnah Talmuds and midrashim. Contributors use a variety of methods drawn from literary and cultural theory to address fundamental questions such as the relationship between stories and law between aggadic narratives and their halakic contexts and between rabbinic narratives and their Greco-Roman Persian-Sasanian and Syrian-Christian contexts. The volume includes eleven studies by contributors Gila Fine Matthew Goldstone Chaya T. Halberstam Jenny R. Labendz Lynn Kaye Admiel Kosman Avi M. Miller Aviva Richman Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Mira Beth Wasserman and Shlomo Zuckier. </p>