Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Privileging Legal Narrative: Resisting Code as the Image of Jewish Law 9
5. Chapter 2. Deconstructing Halakhah and Aggadah 31
6. Chapter 3. A Touch of the Rabbinic Real: Rabbis and Outsiders 63
7. Chapter 4. Social Dynamics of Pedagogy: Rabbis and Students 96
8. Chapter 5. Torah as Cultural Capital: Rabbis and Rabbis 122
9. Chapter 6. Lengthy Bavli Narratives: A New Theory of Reading 147
10. Conclusion 164
11. Notes 169
12. Bibliography 217
13. Subject Index 229
14. Acknowledgments 237