Let the "People" Go?: The "Folk" and their "Lore" as Tropes in the Reconstruction of Rabbinic Culture.
This article argues that "folklore" has served as a narratological device in modern scholarship of rabbinic culture; rather then reflecting rabbinic history, "folklore" has served in constructing sociocultural images that are not grounded in, or indicated by, the rabbinic corpus itself. The first pa...
| Publicado en: | Prooftexts Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 206 - 242 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Indiana University Press
Spring2009
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