RT Article
T1 The nature and purpose of mishnaic narrative: recent seminal contributions
JF AJS review
VO 32
IS 2
SP 263
OP 289
A1 Walfish, Avraham
LA English
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/165055124X
AB In recent decades, talmudic studies, along with other disciplines devoted to the study of texts, have experienced numerous paradigm shifts regarding both methods and goals. The naive presupposition that a text provides reliable information about historically situated characters, whether those described in the text or those who authored the text, has been vigorously challenged on many counts and from many angles. Responses to the challenge have ranged from sophisticated attempts to recover hermeneutical stability, whether rooted in authorial intention, in textually grounded meaning, or in some form of dialogue between the reader and the author or text, to the panoply of deconstructive approaches and other forms of postmodern recontextualization.
K1 Talmud
K1 Written narratives
K1 Narrativity
K1 Rabbis
K1 Narrative modes
K1 Conceptualization
K1 Redaction
K1 Apodicticity
DO 10.1017/S0364009408000123