Simon-Shoshan, Moshe  1970- <br/><br/>
Stories of the law :  narrative discourse and the construction of authority in the Mishnah / 
By Moshe Simon-Shoshan. 
 - New York ;  Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  2012. 
 - XIV, 287 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> With supercover 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Cont.: Introduction -- Pt. I. Narrativity in the Mishnah -- Stories, narratives, and narrativity -- A typology of Mishnaic forms -- Mishnaic topography -- The Mishnah in comparative context -- Pt. II. The Mishnaic story -- Transmission, redaction, and rhetoric -- Exempla: who is a rabbi? -- Case stories: repetition and renewal -- Etiological stories: original nightmares -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/><br/>English with passages in Hebrew and English translations 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0-19-977373-2 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Narration in rabbinical literature<br/>Mishnah--Criticism, Narrative<br/>Jewish law in literature