Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages (2011 Fraade), book

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Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages (2011) is a book by Steven D. Fraade.

Abstract

"Ancient Jewish writings combine interpretive narratives of Israel’s sacred history with legal prescriptions for a divinely ordered way of life. Two ancient Jewish societies have left us extensive textual corpora preserving interpenetrating legal and narrative interpretive teachings: the sectarian community of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the sage-disciple circles of the early Rabbis. This book comprises studies that explore specific aspects of the interplay of interpretative, narrative, and legal rhetoric with an eye to pedagogic function and social formation for each of these communities and for both of them in comparison. It addresses questions of how best to approach these writings for purposes of historical retrieval and reconstruction by recognizing the inseparability of literary-rhetorical textual analysis and a non-reductive historiography."--Publisher's description.

Editions and translations

Published Leiden: Brill, 2011 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 147).

Contents

I. INTRODUCTION/RETROSPECTIVE

  • 1: Introduction: Of Legal Fictions and Narrative Worlds
  • 2: Nomos and Narrative Before “Nomos and Narrative”

II. DEAD SEA SCROLLS

  • 3: Interpretive Authority in the Studying Community at Qumran
  • 4: To Whom It May Concern: Miqṣat Maʿaśe Ha-Torah (4QMMT) and Its Addressee(s)”
  • 5: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in 4QMMT: The Case of the Blessings and Curses

III. COMPARATIVE: DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND RABBINIC LITERATURE

  • 6: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism after Sixty (Plus) Years: Retrospect and Prospect
  • 7: Qumran Yaḥad and Rabbinic Ḥavurah: A Comparison Revisited
  • 8: Looking for Legal Midrash at Qumran
  • 9: Looking for Narrative Midrash at Qumran
  • 10: Shifting from Priestly to Non-Priestly Legal Authority: A Comparison of the Damascus Document and the Midrash Sifra
  • 11: Deuteronomy and Polity in the Early History of Jewish Interpretation
  • 12: Ancient Jewish Law and Narrative in Comparative Perspective: The Damascus Document and the Mishnah
  • 13: Theory, Practice, and Polemic in Ancient Jewish Calendars
  • 14: “The Torah of the King” (Deut 17:14–20) in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Law

IV. RABBINIC LITERATURE

  • 15: Priests, Kings, and Patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin in its Exegetical and Cultural Settings
  • 16: Navigating the Anomalous: Non-Jews at the Intersection of Early Rabbinic Law and Narrative
  • 17: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in Early Midrashim
  • 18: Rewritten Bible and Rabbinic Midrash as Commentary
  • 19: Rabbinic Midrash and Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation
  • 20: Rabbinic Polysemy and Pluralism Revisited: Between Praxis and Thematization
  • 21: Moses and the Commandments: Can Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric be Disentangled?
  • 22: Hearing and Seeing at Sinai: Interpretive Trajectories
  • 23: The Temple as a Jewish Identity Marker Pre- and Post-70 C.E.: With Particular Attention to the Holy Vessels in Rabbinic Memory and Imagination
  • 24: Local Jewish Leadership in Roman Palestine: The Case of the Parnas in Early Rabbinic Sources in Light of Extra-Rabbinic Evidence

V: AFTERWORD/PROSPECTIVE

  • 25: Afterword: Between History and its Redemption

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