Law as Literature »

Contributors to this Issue     iv
Abbreviations     v
Transliterations     vii
Introduction: Law as Literature   William Scott Green     1
Form Analysis and Exegesis: The Case of Mishnah Tohorot 2:2-8   Jacob Neusner     5
Form as Meaning in Halakic Midrash: A Programmatic Statement   Jack N. Lightstone     23
Contemporary Exegesis of Talmudic Literature: The Work of Shamma Friedman, David Weiss Halivni, and Abraham Weiss
Introduction: Metaphor and Exegesis   Jacob Neusner     37
The Work of Shamma Friedman
Shamma Friedman's Methodological Principles   David Weiner     45
Shamma Friedman on b. Yebamot 87b-88a   Louis Newman     53
Shamma Friedman on b. Yebamot 88a-b   Roger Brooks     63
Shamma Friedman on b. Yebamot 88b-89a   Judith Romney Wegner     77
The Work of David Weiss Halivni: A Source-Critical Commentary to b. Yebamot 87b   Louis Newman     93
Abraham Weiss as Exegete and Text-Critic: The Case of b. Berakot 35b   Roger Brooks   Joseph M. Davis     103
Redaction and Formulation: The Talmud of the Land of Israel and the Mishnah   Jacob Neusner     117