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Contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Privileging Legal Narrative: Resisting Code as the Image of Jewish Law 9 Chapter 2. Deconstructing Halakhah and Aggadah 31 Chapter 3. A Touch of the Rabbinic Real: Rabbis and Outsiders 63 Chapter 4. Social Dynamics of Pedagogy: Rabbis and Students 96 Chapter 5. Torah as Cultural Capital: Rabbis and Rabbis 122 Chapter 6. Lengthy Bavli Narratives: A New Theory of Reading 147 Conclusion 164 Notes 169 Bibliography 214 Index 229 Acknowledgments 237 This page intentionally left blank ...

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