Thursday, May 21, 2020

Wolf on The Rabbinic Legal Imagination

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Rabbinic Legal Imagination (Sarah Wolf).
Sarah Wolf, “The Rabbinic Legal Imagination: Scholasticism and Narrativity in the Babylonian Talmud” (Ph.D Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2018).
Excerpt:
By connecting rabbinic scholasticism with literariness, my dissertation both widens the basis for cross-cultural comparison of scholasticism and elucidates distinctively rabbinic features within a broader Sassanian scholastic context.

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